Neuro-ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Patient Services
Flaum Eye Institute’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Service is staffed by the region’s largest group of fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologists who will work with your referring physician to manage your condition or illness. The Service incorporates a variety of diagnostic instrumentation to thoroughly evaluate your condition, including vascular studies, CT, MRI, fluorescein angiography, Humphrey visual field and optical coherence tomography among others.
We also provide adult surgical correction of misaligned eyes (strabismus). This may be the result of stroke, compressive lesions, demyelinating disease, thyroid eye disease, myasthenia gravis, trauma or congenital conditions that were never treated during childhood. Because of their expertise related to double vision, neuro-ophthalmologists are expert at addressing vision issues related to misaligned eyes.
Symptoms our doctors evaluate include
- Double vision: intermittent or constant
- Vision loss including: transient loss of vision, dimming of the vision, color vision loss, peripheral vision loss, unexplained visual loss
- Involuntary facial or eye movements, including involuntary blinking or twitching
- Eyelid droop: intermittent or constant
- Change in prominence of the eyes
Conditions treated by Neuro-ophthalmology include
- Cranial nerve palsies
- Skew deviation
- Myasthenia gravis
- Thyroid eye disease
- Brain tumors
- Optic nerve tumors
- Aneurysms
- Strokes
- Carotid-cavernous fistulas
- Dural arteriovenous fistulas
- Venous sinus thrombosis
- Orbital myositis/ orbital pseudotumor
- Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia
- Nystagmus
- Optic neuritis
- Toxic, metabolic, nutritional optic neuropathies
- Hereditary optic neuropathy
- Traumatic optic neuropathy
- Compressive optic neuropathy
- Ischemic optic neuropathy
- Radiation induced optic neuropathy
- Papilledema
- Optic disc drusen
- Pseudopapilledema
- Neuroretinitis
- Optic perineuritis
- Giant cell arteritis
- Demyelinating disease such as multiple sclerosis
- Autoimmune diseases like neurosarcoidosis, MOGAD (myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein associated disease, NMO (neuromyelitis optica), IgG 4 disease
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Blepharospasm, Meige syndrome, hemifacial spasm, apraxia of eyelid opening
- Visual-spatial disorders such as posterior cortical atrophy
- Cortical blindness