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Neuro-ophthalmology/Orbit
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The Neuro-ophthalmology/Orbit Service (Dr. Newman) bridges the interface between ophthalmology, neurology, neurosurgery, plastics, and head and neck surgery. Patients with ophthalmic manifestations of systemic disease are often seen through this service. In addition to neuro-ophthalmic problems, this subspecialty service treats orbital and oculo-plastic disorders and serves as the ophthalmic consultation service for a wide variety of unusual pathology.
Current clinical research interests of the Neuro-ophthalmology division include skull-base tumors, their neuro-ophthalmic manifestations and clinical approaches, pseudotumor cerebri, the optic neuropathy of increased intracranial pressure, and anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (natural history and treatment). Additional research involves the application of automated static perimetry to neuro-ophthalmology, potentials for therapy in various forms of optic neuropathy, orbital and cerebrovascular blood flow and the use of needle aspiration techniques in the diagnosis of tumors of the orbit and skull base. Quantitative techniques are being examined to improve the ability to study natural history and detect progression in various neuro-ophthalmic disease processes. The hospital has a superconducting magnetic coil resonance imager, which is currently available for clinical research.
The Neuro-ophthalmology Service at the University of Virginia also sees most of the patients undergoing Gamma Knife therapy. In conjunction with the Neurosurgery Department and the Otolaryngology Department at the University of Virginia, there is also an opportunity of advancing the frontiers in endoscopic skull base surgery.
Faculty:
Steven Newman, M.D.
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