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Pupillary Disorders in Homonymous Visual Field Defects

SKORKOVSKÁ, Karolína, Barbara WILHELM and Helmut WILHELM

Basic information

Original name

Pupillary Disorders in Homonymous Visual Field Defects

Authors

SKORKOVSKÁ, Karolína, Barbara WILHELM and Helmut WILHELM

Edition

1st. ed. Cham, Homonymous Visual Field Defects, p. 107-119, 13 pp. 2017

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

30207 Ophthalmology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

ISBN

978-3-319-52282-1

Keywords in English

Pupil; Pupil light reflex ;Relative afferent pupillary defect; Pupil perimetry

Tags

EL OK, topvydavatel

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 26/2/2018 17:10, Soňa Böhmová

Abstract

V originále

Classically, the pupil light reflex pathway is considered to be a simple reflex arc consisting of the retinal ganglion cells, intercalated neurons in the midbrain, the oculomotor nerve, and short ciliary nerves. However, there are some specialties in the structure of the afferent pupillary pathway that should be taken into account when interpreting pupillary disorders and that can help in the topodiagnosis of the lesion. Moreover, studies in patients with lesions of the retrogeniculate pathway showed that the pupillary pathway is more complex than previously assumed and the retrogeniculate visual pathway and the visual cortex are also involved in the pupillary light reaction. Clear anatomic evidence is still lacking but pupillographic measurements in patients with various disorders of the visual pathway support the existence of two pupillomotor channels that drive the pupil light reaction – the subcortical (more primitive, luminance channel associated with the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells) and the suprageniculate (responds to shifts in structured stimuli, is driven by the rods and cones, and receives input from the visual cortex and extrastriate areas). The chapter summarizes possible pupillary findings in patients with homonymous hemianopia.
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