OphEd

Following Grand Rounds.

Objectives: Upon completion of this conference the resident/student should be able to:

• List, define and describe the types of eye movements:
  • Saccades
  • Pursuit
  • Vestibulo-ocular reflexes
  • Optokinetic nystagmus
  • Convergence
• Discuss the neuro-anatomy of the different types of eye movements
• Define and discuss supranuclear disorders of eye movement including:
  • Supranuclear stroke
  • Ocular motor apraxia
  • Pontine gaze palsy
  • Intranuclear ophthalmoplegia
  • One & one half syndrome
  • Upgaze & downgaze paresis
  • Dorsal midbrain syndrome
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Oculogyric crisis
  • Near reflex spasm
  • Convergence and divergence paresis
  • Skew deviation
  • Ocular neuromyotonia

Assignment: Please read:

 The Patient with Supranuclear Disorders of Ocular Motility in the BCSC Neuro-ophthalmology book.

• I prepared for this conference using Lanning Kline's Review of Neuro-ophthalmology book.
• Another reference I found very helpful was Supranuclear Control of Ocular Motility by Lea Averbach-Heller (attached)

Objectives: Upon completion of this conference the resident/student should be able to:

Describe the disk pallor's:

• pathophysiology
• differential diagnosis
• symptoms
• signs
• workup
• treatment

Assignment: Please read the appropriate sections Optic Neuropathy in the BCSC series

A Guest Speaker will present - Information to be posted at a later date.

Mandatory for residents on the Retina service rotation. 

Dr. Hair is a trained pediatric ophthalmologist. He attended Drexel University, where he earned his medical degree. His clinical interests include pediatric amblyopia and strabismus, as well as other pediatric eye conditions, such as cataracts, glaucoma, trauma, tumors and ptosis. Dr. Hair completed his ophthalmology residency at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and his fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The title of Dr. Hair's lecture is: “Prevalence of Ocular Pathology on Initial Screening and Incidence of New Findings on Follow Up Examinations in Children with Trisomy 21”.

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