1 - Mnemonics

Question 1

CHBALA

Answer 1

CNVM
1) PED/RPE detachment
2) subretinal hemorrhage
3) sub-RPE hemorrhage
4) subretinal detachment
Choroidal rupture, Histoplasmosis, Best’s, AMD, Lacquer cracks, Angioid streaks

Question 2

CHAT

Answer 2

Follicles

Chlamydia, Herpes, Adenovirus, Toxic (molluscum)

Question 3

PABillae

Answer 3

Allergic
Bacterial
Non-specific (friction)

Question 4

UCRAP

Answer 4

HLA-B27 positive
Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s dz, Reactive arthritis, Ankylosing spondylitis, Psoriatic arthritis

(Note: NOTE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS)

Question 5

CASA

Answer 5

Severe pain - don’t want to lose my license -> lose my casa

Corneal pathology, Anterior uveitis, Scleritis, Angle-closure

Question 6

PEPSI

Answer 6

Angioid streaks

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Ehlers-danlos, Paget’s, Sickle-cell, Idiopathic

Question 7

TDOME

Answer 7

Systemic condns assoc with keratoconus

Turner’s, Down syndrome, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Marfans, Ehler-danlos

Question 8

Canadian National Hockey League

Answer 8

Bacteria that can invade intact corneal epithelium
Corneybacterium diphtheriae
Neisseria gonorrhea/meningitidis
Haemophilus
Listeria

Question 9

Mr Wilson is MAD

Answer 9

Presenile cataracts
Wilson, Myotonic dystrophy, Atopic dermatitis, Diabetes
Also any changes in Ca2+

Question 10

For Salzmann nodular degeneration

Answer 10

Ms. Salzmann has bad dry eye, a blue bow-tie, and she’s high

• 60 yo F
• blue-gray nodules in Bowman’s
• hyaline deposits

Question 11

For Terrien’s

Answer 11

Terrien is a stuck-up 30 yoM, nose in the air

-bilateral superior-nasal thinning

Question 12

DRVOS

Answer 12

Pre-retinal NV
1) vitreous/preretinal hemorrhage
2) tractional RD
3) VEGF -> NVG
Diabetes, ROP, Vein occlusion, Ocular ischemic syndrome, Sickle-cell