21341 - Visual System Diseases (A-K)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Emilio Campos
  • Credits: 1
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the teaching period, students acquire knowledge of major diseases of the visual apparatus both in evolutional age and in adulthood; students are familiar with ocular manifestations in the course of systemic diseases and  in diseases of the cranio-facial region; are acquainted with ocular semeiotics and its role in diagnosis and treatment of ocular, otolaryngological,  dental, neurological and internal diseases

Course contents

DISEASES OF THE ORBIT AND ADNEXAE: Exophtalmos - Blepharitis - Conjunctivitis - Dacriocystitis.

CORNEAL DISEASES: Keratitis - Keratoconus.

EMERGENCIES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY: Foreign bodies - Corneal lesions - Acute retinal diseases - Mechanical lesions to the eye-ball.

DISEASES OF THE RETINA: Local vascular pathologies - Retinal detachment - Retinoblastoma - Diabetic retinopathy - Hypertensive retinopathy - Retinopathy in nephropathy and emopathy - Retinopathy of prematurirty.

DISEASES OF THE UVEA: Uveitis - Melanoma.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GLAUCOMA: Pathophysiology of acqueous - Classification, diagnosis and treatment of glaucomas.

CATARACTS.

STRABISMUS: Comitant and incomitant strabismus - Amblyopias - Refractive.

NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY: Optic neuropathies - Chiasmatic lesions - Post-chiasmatic lesions - Cortical blindness - Visual agnosia - Gaze palsy - Pupil: physiology and pathophysiology.

 

Readings/Bibliography

S. Miglior, T. Avitabile, S. Bonini, E. Campos, L. Mastropasqua: "Malattie dell'Apparato Visivo". Ed. EdiSES s.r.l., Napoli, 2014

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

Candidate may choose between multiple choise written test and oral examination.

Teaching tools

Video projection of slides and movies on essential instrumental diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in ophthalmology.

Office hours

See the website of Emilio Campos