Clinical Neuro-Ophtalmology. a Practical Guide

About this book

• Written by internationally renowned experts
• User-friendly format highlights ‘take home messages’ and includes many tables, flowcharts and illustrations
• 5 Flow chart poster included
• Enclosed CD-ROM offers video-clips, animated images and interactive case reports, glossary, training program and internet links

Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology is a challenge for residents and experienced clinicians alike. This book covers all relevant techniques of diagnosis as well as interpretations of clinical signs. All information is highly structured, highlighting ‘definition’, ‘note’ and ‘pearl’, so that it can also be used by the physician during the patient encounter. The included flow chart posters remind the physician of the most important information.

Further, the accompanying animated CD contains: all of the text passages in a searchable format, interactive case demonstrations, animated sequences of clinical signs and video recordings of clinical examinations.

This unique and practical guide offers invaluable and practical advice for physicians treating patients with neuro-ophthalmic problems.

Written for:

Ophthalmologists, neurologists, emergency room physicians and other specialists called upon to make immediate neuro-ophthalmic decisions

Keywords:

Neuro-ophthalmic emergencies
Neurosurgery
Perimetry
Visual loss
Visual pathway

Contents

• Chapter 1
  The Initial Encounter: Taking a History and Recognition of Neuro-Ophthalmic Emergencies
  U. Schiefer and H. Wilhelm
• Chapter 2
  Visual Loss of Uncertain Origin: Diagnostic Strategies
  H. Wilhelm, U. Schiefer, and E. Zrenner
• Chapter 3
  Functional Anatomy of the Human Visual Pathway
  U. Schiefer and W. Hart
• Chapter 4
  Perimetry
  U. Schiefer, J. Schiller, and W. Hart
• Chapter 5
  Diagnosis of Pupillary Disorders
  H. Wilhelm and B. Wilhelm
• Chapter 6
  Dyschromatopsias Associated with Neuro-Ophthalmic Disease
  H. Jägle, E. Zrenner, H. Krastel, and W. Hart
• Chapter 7
  Electrophysiology
  E. Apfelstedt-Sylla and E. Zrenner
• Chapter 8
  Optic Disc Signs and Optic Neuropathies
  H. Wilhelm and U. Schiefer
• Chapter 9
  Neuro-Ophthalmic Aspects of Orbital Disease
  S. Pitz
• Chapter 10
  Infranuclear Disorders of Ocular Motility
  V. Herzau
• Chapter 11
  Supranuclear Disorders of Ocular Motility
  G. Kommerell
• Chapter 12
  Brain Tumors Relevant to Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
  B. Leo-Kottler
• Chapter 13
  Central Disturbances of Vision
  J. Zihl, U. Schiefer, and J. Schiller
• Chapter 14
  Transient Visual Loss
  H. Wilhelm
• Chapter 15
  Functional Visual Loss and Malingering
  S. Trauzettel-Klosinski
• Chapter 16
  Headache from a Neuro-Ophthalmic Point of View
  H. Wiethölter and H. Wilhelm
• Chapter 17
  Drug-Induced and Toxic Disorders in Neuro-Ophthalmology
  E. Zrenner and W. Hart
• Chapter 18
  Hereditary Disorders of Neuro-Ophthalmic Relevance
  D. Besch
• Chapter 19
  Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology
  B. Lorenz
• Chapter 20
  Neuroradiologic Imaging
  U. Ernemann and T. Nägele
• Chapter 21
  Neurology
  K. Gardill and H. Wiethölter
• Chapter 22
  Neurosurgery of the Visual Pathway
  A. Gharabaghi, J. Honegger, and M. Tatagiba
• Chapter 23
  Radiotherapy for Tumors of the Anterior Visual Pathway
  G. Becker, R.-D. Kortmann, and H. Wilhelm
• Chapter 24
  Reading Disorders
  S. Trauzettel-Klosinski
• Subject Index