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ophthalmoplegia (ophthalmoparesis)
Paralysis of one or more of the extra-ocular muscles.
Etiology:
- thiamine deficiency [2]
- temporal arteritis
- progressive supranuclear palsy
- lacunar infarct
- pituitary apoplexy
- orbital cellulitis (painful)
- periorbital edema (painful)
- cavernous sinus thrombosis (painful)
- internuclear ophthalmoplegia
- multiple sclerosis
- drug adverse effects of checkpoint inhibitor(s)
- progressive external ophthalmoplegia
- hyperthyroidism
- intestinal lipodystrophy (Whipple's disease)
- Miller-Fisher syndrome
- progressive bulbar paralysis (Duchenne syndrome)
- Nonaka distal myopathy
- myasthenic syndrome
- myasthenia gravis
- genetic disorders
- mitochondrial myopathy
Special laboratory:
- biopsy, extraocular muscle
Related
twinkle protein, mitochondrial; T7 gp4-like protein with intramitochondrial nucleoid localization; T7-like mitochondrial DNA helicase; Progressive external ophthalmoplegia 1 protein (PEO1, C10orf2)
Specific
chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO)
external ophthalmoplegia; progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO)
internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO)
supranuclear ophthalmoplegia
General
sign/symptom
eye disease (ophthalmopathy)
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 19
Board Basics. An Enhancement to MKSAP19.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2022