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The Yin Allison Liu Collection covers neuro-ophthalmologic conditions in adult and pediatric patients both on-call and in-clinic.

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ADULTS

On call

  1. Unilateral vision loss:
    1. Sinus mass compression
    2. Trauma
    3. GCA:
    4. NAION
    5. Multiple sclerosis
  2. Bilateral vision loss
    1. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
  3. New onset diplopia
    1. IIIrd nerve palsy
    2. IVth nerve palsy
    3. VIth nerve palsy
    4. Dorsal midbrain syndrome

In clinic

  1. Vision loss
    1. with bilateral optic atrophy:
      • toxic optic neuropathy
      • genetic optic neuropathies: DOA, LHON
    2. Unilateral disc swelling w/ optic disc pit
    3. Without disc anomalies – NMOSD
    4. with bilateral optic atrophy and history of primary open angle glaucoma – MOGAD
  2. Optic nerve anomalies
    1. Peripapillary hemangioma
    2. Optic atrophy due to intracranial ICA dolichoectasia
    3. NAION with retinoschisis
    4. Optic disc coloboma in Noonan syndrome
    5. Normal tension glaucoma vs optic disc drusen
  3.  Diplopia
    1. with ptosis:
      • ocular myasthenia gravis
      • oropharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD)
      • chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO)
  4. Oscillopsia
    1. Brun’s nystagmus
    2. Down beating nystagmus
  5. Ocular motility conditions
    1. Without diplopia – Duane’s syndrome
  6. Pupil abnormalities
    1. Congenital Horner syndrome
    2. Traumatic Horner syndrome
  7. Visual field defect
    1. Tilted optic nerves
    2. Higher cortical dysfunction
  8. Visual sequelae in brain tumor patients
    1. Glioblastoma with visual field defect
    2. Pituitary macroadenoma with optic atrophy and visual field defect
    3. Brain stem lesion causing one-and-a-half syndrome
  9. Epilepsy surgery
    1. VF defects after surgery
  10. Neuro-interventional Radiology

PEDIATRICS

On call

  1. Vision loss:
    1. with optic disc edema – MOGAD
    2. without other focal neurologic signs – stroke
  2. Disc edema
    1. Pseudotumor cerebri syndrome
    2. MOG
    3. Optic disc drusen
  3. Ocular motility
    1. Opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia syndrome
    2. Perinaud Syndrome

In clinic

  1. Optic nerve anomalies
    1. Optic atrophy
      1. MOGAD
      2. LHON
    2. Optic disc edema:
      1. Optic disc melanocytoma
      2. Hunter GAG accumulation causing scleral thickening
    3. Optic nerve hypoplasia
      1. Septo-optic dysplasia
      2. Periventricular leukomalacia
    4. Optic disc drusen
    5. Myelinated fiber at optic disc
  2. Ocular motility conditions
    1. Without diplopia – Duane syndrome
    2. With diplopia – ocular myasthenia gravis
  3. Neurofibromatosis type 1
    1. Lisch nodules
    2. Choroidal abnormalities

Biography

Education:
2007, MD, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

2012, PhD, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Postgraduate training:
July 2012 – April 2013, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

June 2013 – June 2018, Resident physician, Pediatrics, Adult and Child Neurology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

July 2018 – June 2019, Fellow, Neuro-Ophthalmology (Adult and Pediatrics), Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Employment:
August 2019 – present, University of California, Davis

Board certifications:
2018, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), Specialty: Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology

2018, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), Specialty: General Pediatrics

Professional memberships:

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS)
Consortium of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmologists (CPNO)

North American Skull Base Society (NASBS)
Optic Disc Drusen Consortium (ODD)

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Yin Allison Liu

Associate Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Departments of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, Neurology, and Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis