Dissociated Spontaneous Vertical Nystagmus to Downward

Dissociated Vertical Deviation

DOS Times Vol. 12, No. 3 September, 2006 Dissociated Vertical Deviation (DVD) is one of the least understood forms of strabismus. It was first described by Stevens as double vertical strabismus, other common names given to this anomaly are, Alternating hyperphoria (Crone), Anaphoria / anatropia (Stevens), Periodic vertical squint (Anderson), Strabismus sursoadductorius (Cords). The term "Dissoc...

Vertical fusional vergence: the key to dissociated vertical deviation.

OBJECTIVES To test the previous findings of Enright that disparity-induced vertical vergence is mediated primarily by the oblique muscles, and to relate this normal eye movement pattern to the eye movement pattern seen in subjects with dissociated vertical deviation. METHODS Sixteen normal volunteers underwent 55 measurements of the cycloversion associated with prism-induced vertical vergence...

Congenital hereditary vertical nystagmus.

Duke-Elder (1949) states that congenital nystagmus varies considerably in extent, direction, and rapidity of the movements. In most cases it affects both eyes equally, but in a few instances it is uniocular. Typically the movements are pendular in type, horizontal in direction, and do not alter on lateral deviation, although they may then become jerky in type. Sometimes the movement is coarser ...

Management of Dissociated Vertical Deviation.

Alternating dissociated nystagmus with palatal myoclonus--a case report.

An extraordinary eye movement was seen in a vegetative patient. His eyeballs were exotropic in the primary position and showed dissociated nystagmus which appeared alternately in each eye every few seconds. He also had palatal myoclonus quite asynchronous with the nystagmus. To our knowledge, there has been no such nystagmus documented in the literature. We report the new nystagmus with his EOG...