Neuro-ophthalmology

Audit and Research

The number of procedures, patient numbers, source of referrals and common diagnoses of patients are shown in Figures 5.1 to 5.3.

No. of New Patient Referral

Number of procedures

Botox: the number of Botox injections for eyelid and facial spasms ranged between 176 and 428 annually (2013 to 2015).

The most common neuro-ophthalmic diagnoses were 6th cranial nerve palsy (7.3%), ocular myasthenia gravis (6.3%) and facial spasms (5.6%).

Latest audit results

In 2015, a total of 861 new cases were audited.