Neuro-ophthalmologists have a lighthearted attitude about the perception of their specialty because, for many years, neuro-ophthalmology was strictly a diagnosing specialty.
“The joke was that we were ‘diagnose and adios,’” Healio | OSN Neurosciences Section Editor Andrew G. Lee, MD, said. “We were very good at being detectives for disorders that didn’t have good treatments.”
Lee said neurologic disorders such as ischemic events, stroke or optic atrophy cause nerve damage that is not reversible, so neuro-ophthalmologists could help patients by