Dr. Luiz Guilherme Marchesi Mello
Neuro-Ophthalmology, Uveitis and General Ophthalmology
CRM-ES 13621 | RQE 11325
How important is it to combine neuro-ophthalmology and uveitis?
Neuro-Ophthalmology and Uveitis are two areas of Ophthalmology that study ophthalmological manifestations related to systemic diseases. The first one involves structures from the eye to the central nervous system. The second one studies ocular inflammatory processes, especially those related to diseases that affect other parts of the human body (such as rheumatological, infectious, and neurological). Therefore, I believe that the combination of these two specializations enables better assistance to patients, going beyond activities I already do as an Ophthalmologist, which involves the promotion of eye health, treatment clinical and surgical diseases restricted to the eye (such as retinal diseases, glaucoma, cataract, etc) and complementary test (such as fluorescein angiography, ocular ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, etc).
Diseases, signs and associated symptoms
The main signs and symptoms of patients with uveitis and neuro-ophthalmological diseases are:
reduced visual acuity, red eye, eye pain, diplopia (double vision), eye deviation, reduced field of vision, pupil abnormalities, nystagmus (involuntary eye movements), ptosis ("drooping eyelid") and proptosis ("bulging eyes").
Several diseases may be associated to these signs and symptoms (see below some of them), being important the evaluation by an Ophthalmologist. If you want to make an appointment with a specialist, click HERE.
Uuveitis
- Uveitis (anterior, intermediate, posterior, and diffuse)
- Scleritis and episcleritis
- Ocular toxoplasmosis
- Ocular syphilis
- Ocular herpes
- Ocular tuberculosis
- Ocular manifestations of the HIV virus
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Behcet's syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Vasculitis
- Neuroretinitis
- Others...
Neuro-Ophthalmology
- Edema and other optic nerve abnormalities
- Optic neuritis
- Ischemic optic neuropathy ("nerve infarction")
- Intracranial hypertension and hypotension
- Intracranial and optic tumors
- Graves' disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Leber's optic neuropathy
- Other genetic/hereditary diseases
- Cranial nerves palsy
- Carotid-cavernous sinus fistula
- Congenital and acquired nystagmus
- Ocular manifestations of neurological diseases (multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, etc.)
- Others...
Surgical procedures and exams
Ophthalmological procedures
- Pterygium excision and other ocular surface disease
- Cataract surgery
- Intraocular injections
- Retinal laser photocoagulation
- Surgical treatments of glaucoma glaucoma (laser iridotomy, trabeculectomy, etc.)
- Others...
Ophthalmological tests
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- Ocular ultrasound (USG)
- Ultrasonic biomicroscopy (UBM)
- Fluorescein angiography
- Angiography with indocyanine green
- Retinography
- Visual field test
- Gonioscopy
- Color vision assessment
- Others...
Want to know a little more about Ophthalmology, disease and associated symptoms?
Scientific publications
Retina, choroid and optic nerve in Parkinson's disease
Did you know that patients with Parkinson's disease can have ocular abnormalities?
Cherubism: rare genetic disease with retinal alteration
Report of the first case of cherubism with combined retinal and optic nerve alterations.
Glaucoma vs. intracranial tumors: the useful of OCT
Visual pathway tumors can mimic glaucoma. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can help with this differentiation!
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