21341 - Visual System Diseases (L-Z)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • 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 course students know the main diseases of the eye and the visual system in early, adult, and old age; students know ocular manifestations in systemic and craniofacial diseases; students know ophthalmic semeiology with its implications in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular, otorhinolaryngological, dental, neurologic, and internistic diseases.

Course contents

Pathology of the orbit and adnexa; eyelid pathology; the red eye: conjunctivities and keratities; open- and closed-angle glaucoma; cataracts; uveities; vitreous and vitreo-retinal diseases; optic nerve and visual pathways diseases; strabismus and ocular motility disorders; ocular manifestations of systemic diseases.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

Multiple choice test.

Teaching tools

Slide and video projection.

Office hours

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