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Neuro-opthalmology Flashcards

1
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How long do you have to stop driving for if have a TIA?

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1 month

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Causes of headache (in neuro-ophthalmology)

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Migraine
Acute glaucoma
Herpes Zoster virus
GCA

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Features of acute glaucoma

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Fixed dilated pupil
Red eye
Vomiting

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Presentation of GCA

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Headache
Jaw claudication / Jaw pain when eating
Scalp tenderness

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What type of pain is claudication?

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Ischaemic

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What is noticed with HZV in terms of its presentation on the face/head?

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Headache before the rash

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7
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Types of reduced vision

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Transient

Vascular

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Definition of amaurosis

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Total vision loss that lasts a few seconds, with no visible changes in the eye

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What does GCA stand for?

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Giant cell arteritis

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Common cause of transient reduced vision

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TIA

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11
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Who commonly gets amaurosis?

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Elderly

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Common cause of vascular reduced vision

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Migraine

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13
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How long does reduced vision due to migraine usually last?

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20 minutes

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14
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Causes of reduced vision due to the anterior segment

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Cornea; scar

Lens; cataracts

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Causes of reduced vision due to the posterior nerve

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Optic nerve

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16
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How is visual acuity scored?

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X/Y
X = distance reading chart from
Y = distance a normal person can read from

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What is a normal visual acuity?

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6/6

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18
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If cannot read the Snellen chart, what is done?

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  1. Move closer
  2. Finger counting
  3. Movements
  4. Light
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19
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Where is the damage when the patient presents with a homonymous hemianopia?

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Damage after the optic chiasm

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20
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Where is the damage when the patient presents with an afferent pupillary defect?

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Damage before optic chiasm

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21
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Where is there damage if there is only a defect in one eye?

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Damage before the chiasm

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Where is the damage if the patient presents with bitemporal hemianopia?

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Damage at the optic chiasm

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23
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What causes a homonoymous hemianopia?

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Cerebrovascular event

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24
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What type of eye is a hypermetropic eye?

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Short eye

Long sighted

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What type of eye is a myotropic eye?

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Long eye

Short sighted

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26
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Causes of a swollen optic nerve head

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Systemic HTN 
Papilloedema 
Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy 
Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO)
Optic nerve head drusen 
Hypermetropia
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27
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If a swollen optic nerve head is caused by systemic HTN, what is usually present?

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Swollen optic nerve head in BOTH eyes

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Presentation of papilloedema

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Bilateral swollen optic nerve heads
Headache
Increased IOP
Normal vision

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29
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Pathology of optic nerve drusen

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Hyaline deposits (drusen) deposits in the optic nerve 
Pseudopapillodema
30
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Pathology of optic nerve swelling in hypermetropia

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NOT ACTUALLY SWOLLEN

just looks swollen just looks it due to its short eye

31
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What does optic nerve drusen look like on USS?

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Refractile

32
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What does optic nerve drusen look like on CT?

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A bright lesion

33
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What is optic neuritis?

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Optic nerve head inflammation

34
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Causes of optic neuritis

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MS
Alcohol/tobacco 
Infective 
Syphillis (rare)
Lyme (rare)
35
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Presentation of optic neuritis in MS

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Subacute vision loss over days - weeks
Pain on eye movement
Red desaturation

36
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What % of optic neuritis due to MS are retrobulbar? And what does this result in?

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65%

The optic nerve head looks normal

37
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In what time frame does vision improve in due to optic neuritis from MS?

38
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What % of patients with optic neuritis will develop MS after 15 years?

39
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What % of patients with optic neuritis will develop MS after 15 years if there are no lesions on the MRI?

40
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What does AION stand for?

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Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy

41
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Presentation of AION

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Pale optic nerve head
Sudden visual loss
Sudden severe pain

42
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What artery supplies the optic nerve head?

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Anterior ciliary artery

43
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Treatment of non inflammatory AION

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No treatment

44
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Causes / types of AION

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GCA

Non inflammatory

45
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Who gets GCA causing AION?

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Older - 70s

46
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Who gets non inflammatory AION?

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Younger - 60s

Risk factors and assosiations

47
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Will the vision loss in the effected eye of GCA recover?

48
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What % of the other eye will be affected in GCA if untreated?

49
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Why can a biopsy for GCA be -ve even if have the disease?

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Skip lesions

50
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Definition of anisocoria

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Different sized pupils

51
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Which pupil is abnormal in anisocoria?

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The pupil that doesn’t change in shape

52
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Definition of Adie’s pupil?

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Big pupil with delayed constriction in response to light

53
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What is damaged in Adies pupil?

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Efferent pathway

54
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What is the damage in Horners syndrome?

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Sympathetic pathway

55
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Causes of horners syndrome

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CVA
Neck trauma
Demyelination
Syringomyelia

56
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Presentation of horners syndrome

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Miosis
Ptosis
Anhidrosis

57
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Definition of myosis

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Constriction of the pupil

58
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Definition of anhidrosis

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Loss of sweating from the face

59
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What is painful horners syndrome caused by? What may this cause?

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Carotid artery dissection

May cause a stroke

60
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What is the muscle that closes the eyelid?

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Obicularis

61
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Causes of diplopia

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Nerve palsy
Thyroid eye disease
Myasthenia gravis
Stroke

62
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What type of diplopia do you get with a 3rd or 4th nerve palsy?

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Horizontal

63
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What type of diplopia do you get with a 4th nerve palsy or a thyroid eye disease?

64
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Pathology of thyroid eye disease causing diplopia

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Thickening and stiffening of muscles

Muscles can compress optic nerve and can make you lose vision

65
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What is usually done when there is a 3rd nerve palsy? Why? What may some of these patients develop?

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Imagine
Concern that it is due to an aneurysm in the posterior communicating artery
May develop a SAH

66
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Eye features of myasthenia gravis

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Variable diplopia

Ptosis

67
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What can be raised in myasthenia gravis?

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ACh receptor antibodies

68
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Definition of laglopthalmos

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Inability to completely close the eyelids

69
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What happens to the eyeball when the eyes close? Why does this happen? Does this happen in everyone

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The eye rolls up
To protect the corneal surface
No, does not happen in everyone

70
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When there is a facial nerve palsy, where should you look?

71
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Pathology of lid retraction

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Overactive sympathetic system

72
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Common cause of lid retraction

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Thyroid eye disease

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