Miscellaneous Flashcards
What does amblyopia mean?
Poor visual development due to abnormal visual experience i.e. refraction, strabismus, deprivation
How do you treat unilateral ambylopia?
Penalisation
Patching
Atropine eye drops
Early eye discharge (D1-5) more commonly Gonorrhea or chlamydia?
Gonorrhea
Is an exotropia, eye outwards or inwards?
Outwards
How do you assess strabismus?
Look at where the light shines in the cornea
Difference between -phoria and -tropia?
Phoria - misalignment of the eye when covered or intermittently.
-tropia - misalignment present at all times
Reversible cataracts with medical treatment?
Galactossemia
blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta
A ________ nerve injury leads to weak pronation of the forearm, weak flexion & radial deviation of wrist, with thenar atrophy & inability to oppose or flex the thumb
Median nerve injury
Sensory distribution of this nerve includes thumb, radial two and a half fingers, and corresponding portion of palm.
Median nerve
Which nerve?
Loss of sensation on the lateral aspect of the forearm
Musculocutaneous nerve
Also innervates the biceps
This nerve is responsible for thumb extension
Radial nerve
This nerve injury leads to impaired flexion and adduction of the wrist and impaired movement of the thumb, ring and little fingers resulting in a poor grasp (inability to abduct or adduct little and ring finger).
Ulnar nerve injury
Posteriorly displaced supracondylar fracture leads to injury to which strcutures?
Median nerve and brachial nerve
What are the four classical symptoms of porphyria?
Painful abdomen, polyneuropathy, psychological disturbance port wine coloured urine
