Abstract

FR.11.06

Myogenic ocular motility disorders – differential diagnosis and therapy

Viktoria Bau
Klinik und Poliklinik für Augenheilkunde des Universitätsklinikums Carl Gustav Carus der TU Dresden

Myogenic ocular motility disorders occur in various neuromuscular disorders (Myasthenia gravis, Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, mitochondrial Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia presenting with different additional symptoms. Diagnostics and therapy need interdisciplinary collaboration of ophthalmologists and neurologists.
In addition to neuromuscular diseases Grave´s ophthalmopathy, ocular myositis and traumata (blow out fracture) play an important role in causing myogenic motility disorders.

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