The Neuro Ophthalmology of Acute Vision Loss: Diagnosis and Management

Course overview

This course presents and anatomically guided organized clinical approach to evaluating and managing patients who present with acute vision loss or transient visual obscurations. In ophthalmic medicine, acute vision loss or obscurations carries with them a higher likelihood of permanent vison effects, and in some cases the risk of stroke and death. By using an anatomically guided approach, the ocular and cerebral vascular system are discussed in the context of vasculopathy, and how and where the vasculopathic disease affects vision. Included in this discussion are carotid and cerebral arterial disease, ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Diagnosis and management of these patients is presented in a case based method.