Overview

What Is Neuro-Ophthalmologic Disease?

Neuro-ophthalmology combines vision care and the parts of the brain devoted to vision. It deals with many conditions, including:

• Brain mass or tumor: These can cause blurred vision, double vision and restricted field of vision
• Multiple sclerosis: Vision issues can be one of the first signs of this condition.
• Nerve palsies: These can cause double vision, droopy eyelids or dilated pupils.
• Anisocoria (unequal pupils)
• Carotid-cavernous fistula: This can cause double vision, red eye, headache and vision loss.
• Diplopia (double vision)
• Horner’s disease: This causes a drooping upper eyelid, constricted pupil and loss of sweating, usually only on one side of the face.
• Myasthenia gravis: This chronic autoimmune disorder can cause drooping eyelids and double vision.
• Non-physiologic vision loss: This is a decrease in vision not caused by any physical damage.
• Optic nerve edema, disc edema, papilledema, ischemic optic neuropath: Swelling of the optic nerve inside the eye.
• Optic neuritis: Inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause eye pain, temporary vision loss and vision changes.
• Pituitary tumor: This can cause headaches and eye pain, usually felt behind the eyes.
• Stroke: This condition can cause vision loss or partial vision in only one eye.
• Strabismus, misaligned eyes, lazy eye: These are when your eyes are not aligned correctly.
• Giant cell arteritis: This can cause vision loss, headache and double vision.
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: This can cause blurred vision or headache.
• Ischemic optic neuropathy. This condition is caused by blood not flowing properly to the optic nerve, which can cause vision loss.