Nystagmus: treatment

Evidence-based neurology checklist on nystagmus: treatment: Corrective techniques Convergence prisms Base-in prisms High-positive-power spectacles Contact lenses Medical treatments Potential treatments of congenital nystagmus Surgery Investigational treatments Other management issues

Corrective techniques

  • Convergence prisms
  • Base-in prisms
  • High-positive-power spectacles
  • Contact lenses

Medical treatments

Potential treatments of congenital nystagmus

Surgery

Investigational treatments

Other management issues

References

  1. Stahl JS, Plant GT, Leigh RJ. Medical treatment of nystagmus and its visual consequences. J R Soc Med 2002; 95:235-237. 
  2. Thurtell MJ, Leigh RJ. Therapy for nystagmus. J Neuroophthalmol 2010; 30:361-371.
  3. Self JE, Dunn MJ, Erichsen JT, et al. Management of nystagmus in children: a review of the literature and current practice in UK specialist services. Eye (Lond) 2020; 34:1515-1534. 
  4. Murphy OC, Calabresi PA, Gold DR. Teaching Video NeuroImage: Dramatic response to topiramate in acquired pendular nystagmus from multiple sclerosis. Neurology 2023; 100:47-48.

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