Eye (Rubin's Audio Q's and review session material) Flashcards
eyelid inflammation, often presents with bilateral itching, redness, scleral injection: Diagnosis?
What is specific to this diagnosis?
Blepharitis
Specific findings: scales and debris at base of eyelashes (using slit lamp)
Granulomatous inflammation of meibomian glands or glands of Zeis
Chalazion
Yellow plaque of lipid filled macrophages (foamy histiocytes) on nasal aspect of eye
*see this with dislipidemias
Xanthelasma
what thyroid condition is assoc. with exopthalmous?
Graves Disease-induces swelling of extraocular muscles
- most common infectious cause of blindness
- fibrosing conjunctivitis
- passed on by overcrowding and poor hygiene
trachoma (chlamydia trachomatis)
- Yellow conjunctival lump
- usually nasal to Corneoscleral limbus
- caused by sun damage
Pinguecula (most common conjunctival lump)
- fold of vascularized conjunctiva that grows horizontally into the cornea
- insect wing shape
- from sun damage
- benign until it begins to obstruct vision
Pterygium
- opacification of crystalline lens
- common cause of blindness is
- associated with riboflavin or Trp deficiency, glaucoma, scleroderma, retinitis pigmentosa, congenital rubella, and atopic dermatitis
cataract
opaque horizontal band across the superficial central cornea
band keratopathy
impairment in vision associated with aging in which the near point of distant vision becomes located farther from the eye?
presbyopia
unilateral blurred vision with small retinal emboli
amorosis bugax
retinal cotton wool spots are associated with what cardiovascular condition?
Hypertension
night blindness + constriction of peripheral visual fields + loss of retinal photoreceptors + pigment accumulation in retina =
retinitis pigmentosa
most common cause of reduced vision in US
macular degeneration
what is the cause of retinopathy of prematurity
Oxygen toxicity
macular lesion associated with lysosomal storage diseases
cherry red spot
optic neuropathy with excavation of optic nerve head and progressive loss of visual field sensitivity
glaucoma
what type of glaucoma features shallow anterior chamber with abnormally narrow angle?
closed angle glaucoma
which refractive ocular abnormality focuses light in front of the retina because of an abnormal longer AP diameter of eye?
myopia
malignant tumor originating from melanocytes or nevi in the uvea?
malignant melanoma