Keywords
Deficiency disease
Vitamin deficiency
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze the pattern of ophthalmoplegia related to nutritional deficiency of vitamins. Evaluating, thus, which are the most frequent hypovitaminoses when related to ophthalmological phenomena. Methods The methodological approach of this work suggests the compilation of bibliographic studies with qualitative methods and descriptive characteristics through an extensive bibliographic review of the catalogs of the National Library of Medicine, Virtual Health Library and Directory of Open Access Journals. The descriptors used were “Ocular Disorders” and “Vitamin Deficiency”. Inclusion criteria were articles from clinical trials, randomized or non-randomized, case-control studies, cohort studies, open access, published in English, Portuguese, Spanish between 2012 and 2022. Results: Ophthalmoplegia can have its etiology through nutritional deficiencies of vitamins, being vitamins A, D, B12 and B6. Final considerations: Thus, the hypovitaminosis of A is the main cause of ophthalmic pathologies and it progresses mainly with its clinical signs from night blindness to irreversible nutritional blindness.