Neuro-Ophthalmology
Moran Neuro-Ophthalmology physicians review brain scans.
The Neuro-Ophthalmology Service at the Moran Eye Center is equipped to diagnose and manage a wide range of neurological disorders related to the visual pathways and ocular motor systems including:
- Optic neuritis (including multiple sclerosis)
- Post traumatic visual disorders
- Unexplained facial and eye pain
- Papilledema (including pseudotumor cerebri)
- Ischemic optic neuropathy (including temporal arteritis)
- Compressive optic neuropathy
- Pituitary tumors
- Cerebrovascular disease involving vision
- Thyroid eye disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Ocular motor nerve disorders
- Gaze palsies and nystagmus
- Facial movement disorder (blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm)
- Unexplained visual loss
Doctors
Kathleen B. Digre, M.D.
Bradley J. Katz, M.D., Ph.D.
Judith E. A. Warner, M.D.
David A. Weinberg, M.D., FACS
Services
- Visual fields
- Optic nerve function tests (contrast sensitivity, flicker, color testing)
- Visual evoked potentials; auditory evoked potentials
- Electroretinogram (ERG) including multi-focal ERG
- Infrared pupillography and recording
- Tensilon testing
- Pharmacologic pupil testing
- Botulinum injections for blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm, migraine
- Temporal artery biopsy
- Optic nerve sheath decompression for papilledema and progressive ischemia
- Optic neuropathy
- Evaluation of paralytic strabismus and thyroid ophthalmoplegia
We have direct and immediate access to the following services at the University of Utah Hospital:
- MRI, including a high resolution 3.0T magnet MR angiography and MR Venography
- CT, including CT angiography
- Carotid doppler and ultrasound
- Color flow doppler imaging of the eye and orbit
- Orbital Ultrasound with A and B scans
- Cerebral angiography including venography and interventional neuron-radiology