21341 - Visual System Diseases

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Maurizio Mete
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/30
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student:

  • possesses knowledge of the main diseases of the visual system in both developmental age and adulthood;

  • is familiar with ocular alterations associated with systemic diseases and conditions of the craniofacial district;

  • understands ocular semiology and its implications in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular, otorhinolaryngologic, odontostomatologic, neurologic, and internal diseases.

Course contents

  • Anatomy and basic physiology of the visual system

  • Diagnostic techniques in ophthalmology

  • Visual acuity assessment

  • Refractive errors

  • Refractive surgery

  • Diseases of the ocular adnexa

  • Corneal diseases

  • Cataract

  • Glaucoma

  • Uveitis

  • Medically relevant retinal diseases

  • Surgically relevant retinal diseases

  • Neuro-ophthalmology

  • Strabismus

  • Ocular manifestations of systemic diseases

  • Ophthalmological emergencies

  • Readings/Bibliography

    • Kansky Jack I., Oftalmologia Clinica, EDRA MASSON 2017
    • American Academy of Ophthalmology, Basic and Clinical Science Course, AAO, 2024

    Teaching methods

    In-person lectures

    Teaching tools

    Projection of slides and videos

    Office hours

    See the website of Maurizio Mete