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OD1 Semester 2 - Integrated Ophthalmic Sciences and Preclinical Optometry > Oc. Manifestations - Week 4 > Flashcards

Oc. Manifestations - Week 4 Flashcards

1
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Prevalence of ocular congenital disorders in Aus?

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Rare: less than 1.5% of congenital affect the eye

Male: 0.06%, female: 0.04% total: 0.05%

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Describe the 5 types of congenital disorders which affect the eye.

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  1. Phakomatoses:
    - nuero-cutaneous syndromes of ectodermal origin
    - most common manifestation in children = skin lesions
  2. Chromosomal:
    - Chrom. or minor gene sequence anomalies
  3. Infections:
    - infectious agents affect foetal development
  4. Drug embryopathy:
    - maternal drug use affect foetal development

Other:
- cause not determined

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List 3 of the most common Phakomatoses/neuro-cutaneous disorders [not from slides, from own study]

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  • Tuberous Sclerosis (TF)
  • Neurofibromatosis (NF): types 1 and 2
  • Sturge-Weber syndrome [important one]
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Can Phakomatoses cause tumours?

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Yes. Can cause benign congenital tumours (I.e birthmarks)

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Can Phakomatoses be sporadic or are they only inherited?

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They can be both sporadic or inherited

  • but they are mostly inherited
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Which types of congenital eye disorders are ALWAYS acquired?

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Infections and Drug embryopathy

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7
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Define Sturge-Weber syndrome:

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A sporadic congenital neuro-cutaneous disorder characterised by a port-wine stain affecting the skin in the distribution of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (CNV)

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What 3 parts of the body can be affected by Sturge-Weber’s syndrome?

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  1. Skin and/or
  2. Eye and/or
  3. CNS
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How can Sturge-Weber affect the skin?

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Port wine stain (PWS) - capillary hemangioma, cutaneous naevi

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How can sturge-Weber affect the eye?

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Choroidal hemangioma, glaucoma

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Define hemangioma

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A benign tumour of blood vessels, often forming a red birth mark

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Briefly describe the process of eye embryology (day 19 to day 36)

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Day 19: Neural plate forms neural groove
Day 20: Neural folds grow towards each other to form neural tube
3.5wk/~Day 24: Neural tube closes
Day 27: Optic vesicle outgrowth from each side of forebrain
Day 27: Surface ectoderm pushes into optic vesicles and becomes LENS PLACODE, also optic cup forms
Day 36: Lens placode gets suspended from neural ectoderm into eye

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How do optic vesicles form, and when do they form? (embryology). What is this stage of embryogenesis known as?

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Day 25: Indentations (optic pits) form in neural tube and then expand to form sac-shaped extensions (optic vesicles)

Known as Formative Stage 1

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How does embryology form fissures for the hyaloid artery and vein to pass through?

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At day 35 (Formative Stage 3): Closure of optic stalks form a cleft called fetal (choroidal) fissure which the hyaloid artery and vein pass through

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Are facial port wine stains always indicative of Sturge-Weber’s syndrome?

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No. Commonly, facial PWS is not indicative of Sturge-Weber’s.

However, if you have Sturge-Weber’s, you will have a PWS

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What is a port wine stain (PWS)?

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It’s a discolouration of the skin caused by vascular anomaly, usually on the face

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Which location of Port-wine Stain is associated with increased risk of Glaucoma? Where would this Glaucoma most likely develop?

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When PWS is distributed along the upper trigeminal nerve on the face (greatest risk if affecting upper eyelid)
- 1/3rd of these patients develop glaucoma

Glaucoma is most likely to be ipsilateral to the PWS

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Define Angioma

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An abnormal growth/tumour caused by the dilation or formation of new blood vessels

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What causes the port wine stain (PWS) in Sturge-Weber?

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is caused by excess capillaries just below the skin’s surface, or from capillary hemangioma (benign tumour of blood vessels)

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Where can angioma occur in Sturge-Weber?

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  • lymphatic (lymphangioma)
  • vessel walls (hemangioma)
  • tissues surrounding the vessels (telangiectasia, ectasia)
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Define Ectasia

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dilation or distention of a tubular structure

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Describe the histopathology of lid angiomatosis

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  • many capillaries
  • thickened vascular endothelial cells

tumour is usually benign

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SW syndrome: What happens if there is a anomalous vascularity at the canal of schlemm?

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Lead to congenital glaucoma

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List eye-related common pathology for Patau’s syndrome

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  • coloboma: often assoc. with undifferentiated mesenchyme
  • microphthalmos
  • glaucoma
  • retinal dysplasia
  • corneal dysgenesis
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Describe optic nerve coloboma

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optic nerve coloboma shows incomplete retinal/choroidal closure and condensation of the scleral mesenchyme over the gap - forms a staphyloma like structure

in response, parts of the forming optic nerve may prolapse into space

26
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Inheritance pattern for coloboma?

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Autosomal dominant/recessive or X-linked

27
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ocular co-morbidities for coloboma?

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  • gluacoma
  • micropthalmia
  • retinal dysplasia
  • posterior staphyloma
  • heterochromia
  • nystagmus
28
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Give an example of infectious embryopathy

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Congenital Rubella Infection

29
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When does congenital rubella infection occur?

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When the virus crosses the placenta into the embryo - most likely in first trimester

30
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How can rubella cause a congenital cataract?

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Rubella virus gets into the lens during development before the capsule has formed and destroys the embryonic cells

31
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How does rubella virus enter the lens?

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Through the blood supply, because the lens has no barrier to blood circulation during early development

32
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Why is there no barrier b/w the lens and blood circulation during early development?

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Because during development, the lens has a vascular supply

33
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True or False: Fibre cells in rubella cataract don’t regenerate

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False. New fibre cells are generated to replace space left by destroyed embryonic lens cells

34
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How long can rubella virus remain in the lens?

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up to 3 years

35
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What is the risk of surgery for people with Rubella Virus?

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Surgery may release live rubella virus and cause endophthalmitis or cataract later on

36
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Describe the histopathology of Rubella Virus

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  • patchy atrophy and compensatory RPE hypertrophy during retinal development (outer retina becomes necrotic)
  • characterisitic “salt and pepper” fundus - due to variable density of melanocytes in RPE and choroid
37
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Name an example of Drug Embryopathy

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Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

38
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What causes Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?

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Excessive maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy

39
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Ocular effects of FAS?

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  • narrow palpebral fissure
  • ptosis
  • STRAB
  • microcornea
  • cloudy cornea
  • optic nerve hypoplasia (sectoral, total) etc.

Nice cats meow, purr or scratch

40
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What colour does the cornea appear as in FAS? Why?

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Blue. Due to disrupted corneal collagen fibre bundles, which cause light scatter

41
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What proportion of congenital cataracts in victoria are hereditary?

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~25%

42
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In what ways/locations can congenital cataracts manifest?

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  • anterior
  • posterior polar
  • sutural
  • nuclear
43
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Do all cataracts have a profound effect on vision?

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no

44
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Polar cataracts can be either ____ or ___

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cortical or subcapsular

45
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Which cataract manifestation is more likely to be assoc. with early lens embrologic disorder?

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Nuclear cataract

46
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Which cataract can be inheritied by y-crystallin gene mutations

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Nuclear cataract

47
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Which cataract is usually caused by an anomaly in the neighboring tissue?

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Polar cataract

48
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Which cataract occurs later in development? Why?

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Polar cataract - due to incomplete regression of surrounding tissue

(i.e. hyaloid vasculature regresses at beginning of 4th month)

49
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What is a Mittendorf dot? Which cataract manifestation does it appear in?

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Is a posterior polar opacity assoc. with a remnant hyaloid artery. Occurs in polar cataracts

50
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How can abnormal proliferation of a vitreal substance cause polar cataract?

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is assoc. with incomplete atrophy of the vasculosum lentis, leaving a hyaloid remnant that can cause a polar cataract

51
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What is the effect of the remnant hyaloid (in relation to polar cataract)?

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remnant hyaloid affects posterior cortical metabolism –> lens fibre necrosis –> degeneration of posterior subcapsular cortex

52
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How does atrophy of the optic nerve cells affect the appearance of the optic nerve head/disc in ophthalmoscopy?

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Has a more white-ish appearance

- this is due to the atrophy allowing for greater light reflection from the collagen of the lamina cribrosa

53
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How does loss of optic nerve fibres affect the size of the optic nerve?

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It shrinks the optic nerve from the meninges leaving an abnormally large sub-arachnoid space

54
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Describe the histopathology of optic nerve atrophy

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  • loss of ganglion cells reduces the bulk of the Optic nerve head: causing increased sub-arachnoid space
  • Increased thickness of pial septa
  • astrocytic gliosis
  • thinned retinal Nerve Fibre Layer (RNFL)
55
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In what 2 ways may acquired optic nerve atrophy travel from it’s lesion (based on lesion position)?

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  1. Ascending (to CNS; e.g. glaucoma)

2. Descending (from CNS; e.g. hydrocephalus)

56
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What sort of genes are often implicated in inherited optic nerve atrophy?

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Genes that affect mitochondrial metabolism in retinal ganglion cell axons

57
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What is the cause of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON)?

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mutation of mitochondrial DNA

58
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When does myelination of nerve fibres start (embryology)?

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Myelination starts once fibres reach LGN (~23 weeks of gestation)
- reaches lamina cribrosa (1-3 months post-natal)

59
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Where does myelin growth usually stop?

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At the lamina

60
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What genetic condition is associated with abnormal extra myelination growth beyond it’s normal stopping point?

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Trisomy 21

61
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What mediates myelin growth?

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Oligodendrocytes

62
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How does myelination affect the thickness of the RNFL

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Makes it thicker

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