Curbside Consultation in Neuro-Ophthalmology: 49 Clinical Questions

Andrew G. Lee MD

 
 
 

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Are you looking for concise, practical answers to those questions that are often left unanswered by traditional texts and references in neuro-ophthalmology? Are you seeking brief, evidence-based advice for common clinical dilemmas or complications? Curbside Consultation in Neuro-Ophthalmology: 49 Clinical Questions provides quick and direct answers to the thorny questions most commonly posed during a “curbside consultation” between neuro-ophthalmologists.

Dr. Andrew G. Lee, and associate editors Dr. Paul W. Brazis and Dr. Lanning B. Kline, have designed this unique reference in which neuro-ophthalmologists offer expert advice, preferences, and opinions on tough clinical questions commonly associated with neuro-ophthalmology. The unique Q&A format provides quick access to current information related to neuro-ophthalmology with the simplicity of a conversation between two colleagues. Images, diagrams, and references are included to enhance the text and to illustrate common clinical dilemmas.

Curbside Consultation in Neuro-Ophthalmology: 49 Clinical Questions provides information basic enough for residents while also incorporating expert pearls that even high-volume ophthalmologists will appreciate. Residents, fellows, and practicing physicians alike will benefit from the user-friendly and casual format and the expert advice contained within.

Some of the questions that are answered:

  • What is the best way to manage papilledema?
  • What treatments are there for traumatic optic neuropathy?
  • When and how do I order an imaging study in neuro-ophthalmology?
  • What is the work-up for anterior ischemic optic neuropathy?
  • What evaluation is necessary for an isolated ocular motor cranial neuropathy?

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Contributing Authors

Preface

Question 1

How Should a Childhood Optic Nerve Glioma Be Worked Up?
Mark Borchert, MD

Question 2

How Should an Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma Be Managed?
Neil Miller, MD

Question 3

What Neuroimaging Studies Should I Order?
Fiona Costello, MD

Question 4

How Should I Evaluate and Manage Suspected Optic Neuritis?
Eric Eggenberger, DO

Question 5

What Is the Evaluation of Optic Neuritis?
Steve Galetta, MD (co-authored with Melissa Ko, MD)

Question 6

What Is Neuroretinitis?
Rod Foroozan, MD

Question 7

How Do You Evaluate Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy?
M. Tariq Bhatti, MD

Question 8

How Do You Differentiate Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy From Non-Arteritic?
Alfredo Sadun, MD, PhD

Question 9

How Long Do You Have to Treat Giant Cell Arteritis?
Jackie Leavitt, MD

Question 10

What Is the Evaluation of Traumatic Optic Neuropathy?
Nicholas Volpe, MD (co-authored with Jennifer K. Hall, MD)

Question 11

What Is the Evaluation and Management for Papilledema?
Michael Wall, MD

Question 12

Is There a Difference in the Management of Pseudotumor Cerebri in Pregnancy?
Deborah Friedman, MD

Question 13

What Is the Evaluation and Management of the High-Flow Carotid Cavernous Fistula?
Victoria S. Pelak, MD (co-authored with Drew Dixon, MD)

Question 14

How Do I Manage an Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia?
Christopher C. Glisson, DO (co-authored with David I. Kaufman, DO)

Question 15

What Is the Evaluation of Ocular Myasthenia Gravis?
Laura J. Balcer, MD, MSCE (co-authored with Raymond Price, MD)

Question 16

What Do I Tell My Patients With Ocular Myasthenia About Their Chances of It Progressing to the Rest of Their Body? Do I Need a Neurologist?
Pamela S. Chavis, MD (co-authored with Peter Savino, MD)

Question 17

How Do You Manage Visual Loss in Thyroid Eye Disease?
James Garrity, MD

Question 18

When Do You Use Radiation or Steroids in Thyroid Eye Disease?
Steven Feldon, MD

Question 19

How Do You Manage Diplopia in Thyroid Eye Disease?
Kimberly Cockerham, MD

Question 20

Are There Any Treatments for Nystagmus That Work?
Janet C. Rucker, MD

Question 21

How Do You Evaluate Nystagmus?
Sophia Chung, MD

Question 22

What Is the Evaluation for Anisocoria?
Brian Younge, MD

Question 23

How and When Should I Work Up the Horner Syndrome?
Valérie Biousse, MD

Question 24

What Should I Do With a Dilated Pupil?
Randy Kardon

Question 25

What Is the Evaluation for Episodic Anisocoria?
Aki Kawasaki, MD

Question 26

How Do You Manage Toxic and Nutritional Optic Neuropathies?
Julie Falardeau, MD, FRCSC

Question 27

What Are Visual Processing Defects and How Can I Recognize Them?
Swaraj Bose, MD

Question 28

How Do I Manage Headache Syndromes That Come to Me as an Ophthalmologist?
Kathleen B. Digre, MD

Question 29

What Is the Evaluation of Optic Atrophy?
Karl C. Golnik, MD, Med

Question 30

What Do I Do With Childhood Nystagmus?
Madhura A. Tamhankar, MD (co-authored with Grant T. Liu, MD)

Question 31

What Is Opsoclonus and How Do I Manage It?
Steve Newman

Question 32

What Is Wernicke’s Encephalopathy and How Does It Affect the Eye?
James Corbett, MD

Question 33

How Do You Manage Postoperative Visual Loss After Spinal Surgery?
Wayne Cornblath

Question 34

How Do I Manage Transient Monocular Visual Loss in a Young, Otherwise Healthy Patient?
Rosa Tang, MD

Question 35

What Is the Evaluation for Transient Monocular Visual Loss in an Older Adult?
Byron Lam, MD

Question 36

What Is the Evaluation for a Homonymous Hemianopia?
Jonathan C. Horton, MD, PhD

Question 37

What Is the Evaluation for a Pupil-Involved Third Nerve Palsy?
Jeffrey Odel, MD (co-authored with Sang-Rog Oh, MD and Gautam R Mirchandani, MD

Question 38

What Is the Evaluation for a Painful Third Nerve Palsy Without a Fixed and Dilated Pupil but With Anisocoria (Partial Pupil Involvement) in a 67-Year-Old Diabetic Woman?
Michael S. Vaphiades, DO

Question 39

How Do You Manage an Isolated and Presumed Vasculopathic Pupil-Sparing Third Nerve Palsy?
Tom Carlow, MD

Question 40

What Is the Appropriate Evaluation of a Fourth Nerve Palsy?
Robert L. Tomsak, MD, PhD (co-authored with Matthew J. Thurtell, MBBS)

Question 41

What Is the Appropriate Evaluation in a Patient Suspected of Having a Sixth Nerve Palsy?
Steven R. Hamilton, MD

Question 42

How Do I Evaluate a Patient With Multiple Ocular Motor Cranial Nerve Palsies?
Greg Kosmorsky

Question 43

What Is Blepharospasm?
Timothy J. McCulley, MD (co-authored with Thomas Hwang, MD, PhD)

Question 44

What Is Hemifacial Spasm?
Michael S. Lee, MD (co-authored with Andrew R. Harrison, MD)

Question 45

How Do You Deal With Nonorganic Visual Loss?
Robert Lesser, MD

Question 46

How Do You Diagnose and Manage Migraine Aura?
Robert Spector, MD

Question 47

How Do I Manage the Slow Flow Carotid Cavernous Fistula?
Leah Levi, MBBS

Question 48

How Do I Recognize Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy?
Nancy J. Newman, MD

Question 49

How Do I Manage an Orbital Apex Syndrome?
Roger Turbin, MD

Financial Disclosures

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About the Editor

Andrew G. Lee, MD is a graduate of the University of Virginia undergraduate school and the School of Medicine. He completed his ophthalmology residency and was the chief resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX in 1993. Following his residency, Dr. Lee completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology with Neil R. Miller, MD at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and was a postdoctoral Fight for Sight fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD from 1993 to 1994. He was formerly an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston from 1994 to 2000. He has published over 260 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters, and 2 full textbooks in ophthalmology. Dr. Lee serves on the editorial board of 12 journals, including the American Journal of Ophthalmology, the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, and Eye. He has received the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Honor Award, the AAO Secretariat Award, and the AAO Senior Achievement Award. He has been the invited guest or visiting professor at over 150 medical meetings. Dr. Lee is currently Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery in the H. Stanley Thompson Neuro-Ophthalmology Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

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