Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance

Professor responsible for the course unit: NUZZI Giuseppe

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8 credits

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Learning objectives

to acquire the fundamental elements of the pathophysiology of sensory and motor alterations and on the treatment of forms of strabismus including the paralytic forms

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Course unit content

General details on oculomotor imbalance

Full programme

General details on oculomotor imbalance.
Heterophoria: pathophysiology. Esophorias and exophorias.
Intermittent deviations and heterophoria dysfunction.
Heterotropias: pathophysiology. General details on the main types of heterotropia: esotropias, exotropias, vertical strabismus and alphabet syndromes.
Nystagmus (physiological nystagmus, pathological nystagmus).
Paralytic strabismus.Ocular motility test: test to establish the existence of an ocular deviation: the cover test, corneal reflexes, strabismus and pseudo strabismus (epicanthus, kappa angle, facial assymetry).

The incomitance of a deviation and its determination: objective methods (cover test, Hess screen, Bielschowsky test) and subjective methods (diplopia test).

Ocular torticollis.

Binocular vision test: in ambient conditions, with haploscope. Methods for determining suppression, CR, stereopsis

Bibliography

Burian - von Noorden: binocular visione and ocular motility

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Assessment methods and criteria

multichoice quiz

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