Neuro-Ophthalmology

Matthew Thurtell, MBBS, is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at the University of Iowa, with appointments in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Neurology. He is Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at the University of Iowa, where has been on faculty since 2010. His clinical practice incorporates the spectrum of neuro-ophthalmic disorders. His research interests include eye movement disorders and idiopathic intracranial hypertension. He is currently Study Co-Director for the Surgical Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension trial (SIGHT). Robert L. Tomsak, MD, PhD is Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Specialist in Neuro-ophthalmology at Kresge Eye Institute. He has practiced neuro-ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland and University Hospitals of Cleveland before moving to Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit in 2010. His clinical practice includes a wide variety of neuro-ophthalmic disorders. His current research interests include the use of multifocal ERG in the diagnosis of nutritional amblyopia and the use of OCT and OCT-A in assessing papilledema in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.

Section I: Afferent Disorders
1. Optic Neuritis
2. Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
3. Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
4. Compressive Optic Neuropathy
5. Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
6. Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
7. Neuroretinitis
8. Papilledema
9. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
10. Pseudopapilledema
11. Chiasmal Syndromes
12. Homonymous Hemianopia
13. Disorders of Higher Visual Function
14. Visual Auras, Hallucinations, and Illusions
15. Transient Vision Loss
16. Unexplained Vision Loss
17. Non-Organic Vision Loss

Section II. Efferent Disorders
18. Third Nerve Palsy
19. Fourth Nerve Palsy
20. Sixth Nerve Palsy
21. Intermittent Diplopia
22. Ocular Myasthenia
23. Infranuclear Ophthalmoplegia
24. Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia
25. Supranuclear Ophthalmoplegia
26. Gaze-Evoked Nystagmus
27. Downbeat Nystagmus
28. Upbeat Nystagmus
29. Pendular Nystagmus
30. Infantile Nystagmus
31. Saccadic Intrusions and Dysmetria

Section III: Eyelid Disorders
32. Eyelid Ptosis
33. Benign Essential Blepharospasm

Section IV: Pupil Disorders
34. Anisocoria
35. Horner's Syndrome
36. Tonic Pupil

Section V: Orbital and Mischellaneous Disorders
37. Thyroid Eye Disease
38. Syndromes of the Orbital Apex, Superior Orbital Fissure, and Cavernous Sinus
39. Carotid-Cavernous Fistula
40. Dorsal Midbrain Syndrome