Ocular Disease: Lecture14: Conjuntiva Flashcards
Conjunctiva
- It’s Highly Vascular: What 2 arteries supply blood to it?
- It has a dense lymph system. Drains to what 2 areas?
- Anterior Ciliary Arteries, and Palpebral Arteries
2. Pre-auricular and Submandibular
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Discharge
- What 4 types of discharge are there?
- Watery (Serous), Mucous, Mucopurulent, and Purulent Discharge
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Discharge: Watery (Serous)
- What 2 things can cause it?
- Mucous Discharge: What 2 things can cause it?
- Acute Viral Conjunctivitis and Acute Allergic Conjunctivitis
- Chronic Allergic Conjunctivitis, and Dry Eye
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Discharge: Mucopurulent
- What 2 things can cause it?
- Purulent Dishcarge
a. Moderate caused by what?
b. Severe Caused by what?
- Acute Bacterial Conjunctivitis, and Chlamydia
- a. Acute Bacterial Conjunctivitis
b. Gonococcal
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
- Hyperemia (Injection): Caused by what?
- Hemorrhage: Caused by what 3 things?
- Ocular Irritation
- a. Trauma
b. Bacterial and Viral Conjunctivitis
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Chemosis (Edema)
- 2 symptoms seen with it?
- If it’s severe, how will it present?
- Acute (Non-Traumautic): Caused by what?
- Chronic: Caused by what?
- Severe Inflammation and Translucent Swelling
- It will Protrude through the Lids
- Hypersensitivity
- Orbital Outflow Restrictions
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Membranes
- 2 Types
- Can be due to what 5 issues?
- Pseudomembranes and True Membranes
- a. Bacterial Infections
b. Gonococcal Conjunctivitis
c. Ligneous Conjunctivitis
d. Severe Adenoviral Conjunctivitis
e. Stevens Johnson Syndrome
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Pseudomembranes
- What are they?
- What do they “STICK” to?
- They can be peeled…if so, what will happen?
- Coagulated Exudates
- Inflamed Conjunctival Epithelium
- Cause Bleeding
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
True Membranes
- Involve what layers?
- What will it tear when you try to remove them?
- Superficial Layers
2. Tears Conjunctiva when you try to remove them.
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Infiltration
- Due to what?
- What does it look like?
a. This obscures what?
- Due to Chronic Inflammation
- a Whitish Clouding of the Conjunctiva
a. the Underlying Structures
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Follicles
- What are they?
- Are they a solid color or translucent?
- Where are they most prominent?
a. IF they’re FOUND at the LIMBAL, what causes it? - How are vessels found on them?
- Multiple, Discrete, Slightly Elevated Lesions
- Translucent
- In the FORNIX
a. Chlamydia - They Run ACROSS or AROUND them, instead of WITHIN them.
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Follicles
- Due to what 4 infections?
- Normal found how in Children?
- Normally found how in Adults?
- a. Chlamydial Conjunctivitis
b. Viral Conjunctivitis
c. Medicamentosa
d. Parinaud Oculoglandular Syndrome - Small follicles in children are normal
- Small Follicles AT FORNICES and MARGIN of UPPER TARSAL PLATE for Adults
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Papillae
- Found in 1 of 2 places only?
- Macropapillae: Size?
- Giant Papillae: Size?
- What kind of CORE do they have?
- Palpebral or Limbal Bulbar Conjunctiva
- Less than 1 mm
- Greater than 1 mm
- Vascular Core
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Papillae
- Can be caused by what 7 things?
- Allergic Conjunctivitis
- Bacterial Conjunctivitis
- Chlamydial Conjunctivitis
- Chronic Marginal Blepharitis
- Contact Lens wear
- Floppy Eyelid Syndrome
- SLK
Conjunctiva: Important Findings
Phlyctenulosis
We already talked about this…see previous lecture slides!
Conjunctival Degenerations
4 things to know?
- Concretions
- Conjunctivochalasis
- Pinguecula (Review from last lecture)
- Retention Cyst (Conjunctival Inclusion Cyst)
Conjunctival Degenerations: Concretions
- How common are they?
- Uni or Bilateral?
- Associated with what 2 things?
- VERY COMMON
- Usually Bilateral
- Aging (most of the time) and Chronic Conjunctival Inflammation
Conjunctival Degenerations: Concretions
- What are they?
a. Made up of what 2 things? - Where are they found?
- Multiple Tiny Yellowish White Deposits
a. Epithelial Debris and Keratin - Subepithelial Conjunctiva (Forniceal and Inferior Palpebral)
Conjunctival Degenerations: Concretions
- What can they become?
- What might they ERODE?
a. This will lead to what?
- Calcified
- Overlying Epithelium
a. Ocular Irritation
Conjunctival Degenerations: Concretions
Treatment
- If Asymptomatic?
- If Symptomatic?
- None. Just Monitor
2. Topical Anesthetic. Remove them.
Conjunctival Degenerations: Conjunctivochalasis
- How common are they?
- What are they associated with? (1)
a. They’re exacerbated by what?
- Relatively Common
- AGING
a. by Posterior Lid Margin Disease
Conjunctival Degenerations: Conjunctivochalasis
- Signs: What is Noted b/w the Globe and the Lower Lid?
a. May note staining with what? - Symptoms (2/3)
- Fold of Redundant Conjunctiva
a. Rose Bengal - Epiphora (Secondary Punctal Stenosis: Mechanical Obstruction of Inferior Punctum)
and
Possible FBS on Downgaze
Conjunctival Degenerations: Conjunctivochalasis
Treatment
- What 4 things can be done to treat it?
- Lubrication
- Conjunctival Resection if it’s severe enough
- Manage Secondary Conditions (Blepharitis)
- Topical Steroids if it’s Inflamed
Conjunctival Degenerations: Conjunctival Retention Cyst (Conjunctival Inclusion Cyst)
- How common is it?
- Sign?
- Fluid can be what 2 things?
- What 2 locations of the conj is it found?
- VERY COMMON
- Thin walled (Translucent) fluid filled cyst
- Clear and Turbid
- Bulbar or Palpebral Conjunctiva
Conjunctival Degenerations: Conjunctival Retention Cyst (Conjunctival Inclusion Cyst)
- Symptoms?
- Treatment?
- Usually none. Sometimes a Cosmetic Concern
2. Usually None. You can puncture it with a Needle
Benign Conjunctival Lesions
- 5 discussed in class…
- Conjunctival Nevus
- Conjunctival Epithelial Melanosis
- Dermoid
- Dermolipoma
- Pyogenic Granuloma
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Naevus
- MOST COMMON what?
- 1% chance that what will happen?
- When does it present?
- Melanocytic Conjunctival Tumor
- of Malignant Transformation
- 1st-2nd Decade
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Naevus
Signs
- Type of Lesion?
a. Where is it Located?
b. Size?
c. Most common locations? (3)
- Solitary, UNILATERAL, Discrete, Mildly elevated intraepithelial Lesions
a. on Bulbar Conjunctiva
b. Variable
c. Caruncle, Juxtalimbal, and Plica
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Naevus
Signs (2)
- Pigmentation?
- May have what kind of space?
- What can it become in children and adolescents?
- Variable. (Non-pigmented is also Possible)
- Cystic Spaces
- Pink and Congested
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Naevus
Signs of Potential Malignancy
- 4 things?
- Unusual Location (Palpebral Conj or Fornix)
- Prominent FEEDER VESSEL
- Sudden Growth or Change in Pigmentation
- Adult Age Development
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Naevus
Treatment?
- Excision
a. COSMETIC is the main reason
b. Irritation
c. Suspicious Appearance
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Dermoid
- How common is it?
- When does it appear?
- What is it?
- 2 Systemic Associations?
- Uncommon
- Early Childhood. (CONGENITAL)
- Solid Mass. Made of COLLAGENOUS TISSUE (Dermal Elements)
- Goldenhar Syndrome, and Linear Nevus Sebaceus of Jadassohn
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Dermoid
Signs
- It’s a Subconjunctival Mass. (what 4 things does it appear like)
a. What may protrude from it? - Where is it located at? (most commonly)
a. May encompass what?
- Smooth, Soft, Yellowish white subconjunctival mass.
a. Hair - Inferotemporal Limbus
a. the Entire Limbus (Complex Choristoma)
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Dermoid
Treatment
- Indicated for what 3 things?
- Small Lesion: What do u do?
- Large Lesion: What do you do?
- Cosmetic Reason; Chronic Irritation. Amblyopia (Astigmatism, and Involves Visual Axis)
- Excision
- Lamellar Keratosclerectomy
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Dermolipoma
- How common is it?
- Uni or Bi?
- Presents when?
- Similar to what?
a. has what tissue in it?
- Uncommon
- Bilateral
- In ADULTHOOD (Congenital)
- Dermoid
a. Fatty Tissue
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Dermolipoma
Signs
- Subconjunctival Mass….like what?
- Location?
a. Can extend into what?
b. Hard to see what?
- Soft, Movable, Yellowish-TAN Subconjunctival Mass
a. May have hair protruding - Superior Temporally Near Outer Canthus
a. Into Superior Fornix
b. the Posterior Limit
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Dermolipoma
Important Diff Dx
- Prolapse of what?
a. Can be repositioned into orbit with what? - Orbital Lobe of what?
- What Lymphoma?
- Orbital Fat Prolapse
a. with Pressure - of Lacrimal Gland
- Lacrimal Gland Lymphoma
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Dermolipoma
Treatment
- Is it needed?
- Surgery can do what 3 things?
- What can be done
- No. SHOULD be AVOIDED
- Can Damage: Recti Muscles, Lacrimal Gland, and Levator
- Debulk Anterior Portion of Cosmetic Concern
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Pyogenic Granuloma
Review Slide from Previous Lecture
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Epithelial Melanosis (Racial Melanosis)
- How common is it?
a. Found more in whom? - Uni or Bi?
a. Symmetric or Asymmetric? - More pronounced during what?
- Due to INCREASED production of what?
- Common
a. Darkly Pigmented Ethnicity - Bilateral
a. Asymmetric - During Puberty
- Increased MELANIN Production
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Epithelial Melanosis (Racial Melanosis)
Presentation
- Usually when?
a. Static by when?
- 1st couple of years
a. by early Adulthood
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Epithelial Melanosis (Racial Melanosis)
Signs
- 3 things about the pigmentation?
a. Moves freely over the Surface of the Globe with what?
b. Scattered throughout what?
c. More intense at what?
- Flat, Patchy, and Brownish
a. Palpation
b. Conjunctiva
c. the Limbus
Benign Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Epithelial Melanosis (Racial Melanosis)
Treatment
- Is it needed?
- No Malignant Potential, and No treatment Necessary
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
- How common is it?
- Uni or Bi?
- Affects whom more?
- 2 types?
- RARE
- Unilateral
- Elderly fair skinned individuals
- a. PAM w/o Atypia
b. PAM w/Atypia
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
PAM w/o Atypia
- Benign or Malignant?
- Found where in the epithelium?
- Proliferation of what?
- Risk of Malignant Transformation?
- Benign
- Intraepithelial
- of Melanocytes
- None
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
PAM w/Atypia
- Found where in Epithelium?
- Proliferation of what?
a. Variable what? (2) - 50% chance of what?
- Intraepithelial
- of Melanocytes that are PLEOMORPHIC
a. Size and Shape - of Infiltrative malignancy w/in 5 years
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
Onset of PAM
- After what age?
- After age 45
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
Signs
- What does it look like?
- Flat or Elevated?
- Color?
- Involves what 2 regions usually?
- Can be seen where?
- May do what?
- Sudden onset of what?
- Irregular, Unifocal or Multifocal Areas
- Flat
- Golden Brown to Dark Chocolate Colored
- Limbus and Interpalpebral Region
- On any part of Conj (Evert Lids)
- Expand or shrink or remain stable. Or may lighten or darken focally
- of Nodules = STRONG SUSPICION of MELANOMA
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
Evaluation
- Best thing to do?
- Only way to differentiate what?
- Biopsy and histological Study
2. PAM w/ and w/o Atypia
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Primary Acquired Melanosis (PAM)
Treatment
- Small Lesions?
- Large Lesions?
- Excision
2. Incision Biopsy from Multiple Sites. If histology Shows ATYPIA: then CRYOTHERAPY or TOPICAL MITOMYCIN C
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
- Common?
- % of All ocular Malignancies?
- 75% of cases arise from what?
- 20% of cases arise from what?
- Remaining arise from what?
- Uncommon
- 2%
- from PAM w/Atypia
- from Pre-existing Nevus
- De Nova
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Presentation
- What decade?
- Associated with what?
- 6th Decade; Rarely Earlier
2. with Dysplastic Nevus Syndrome
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Signs
- Type of Nodule?
a. Type of Nevus?
b. May be Fixed to what?
c. May be located where?
- Black or Gray Vascularized Nodule
a. De Nova Nevus
b. to Episclera
c. anywhere on Conjunctiva (Predilection for LIMBUS, and may extend onto the Cornea)
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Signs
- Type of Tumors?
a. What do they look like? - Multifocal Lesions Possible: Usually associated with what?
a. Appear as focal Areas of what?
- Amelanotic Tumors possible
a. Pink, Smooth, “Fish Flesh” Appearance - PAM w/Atypia
a. of Thickening and Nodularity
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Treatment
- Circumscribed Lesions
a. Type of Excision?
b. Type of therapy?
c. Histological study…why? - Diffuse Melanoma (PAM)
a. What do they do?
- a. Wide Margin Excision
b. Cryotherapy
c. to see if it’s a DEEP surface extension… then you need to do Radiotherapy - a. Excision of Nodules. Cryotherapy or Mitomycin C of Diffuse Area
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Treatment 2
- Recurrence
a. What 2 things should be done? - Exenteration DOES NOT IMPROVE what?
- a. Local resection and Radiotherapy
2. Survival rate. Reserved for very aggressive disease
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Prognosis
- Mortality at 5 years?
- Mortality at 10 years?
- Main sites of Metastasis? (4)
- 12%
- 25%
- Brain, Liver, Lung, Regional Lymph Nodes
Malignant or Pre-Malignant Conjunctival Lesions: Conjunctival Melanoma
Prognosis
- Indications of Poorer Prognosis
a. Tumor types?
b. Tumor Thickness greater than what?
c. what else/
- a. Multifocal Tumors; Extralimbal Tumors involving (caruncle, fornix, palpebral conj)
b. Greater than 2 mm
c. Recurrence, or Lymphatic or Orbital Spread
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
- AKA? (3 things)
- Spectrum of Lesions
a. Uni or bi?
b. Progression: slow or fast?
c. Epithelial (2) - 3 forms?
- Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN); Bowen’s Disease; Conjunctival Dyskeratosis
- a. Unilateral
b. Slowly Progressive
c. Conjunctival and Corneal - Benign, Premalignant, and Malignant forms
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Associated with what 5 things?
- AIDS
- HPV
- Stem Cell Therapy
- UV Exposure
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Histologic Spectrum
- Conjunctival Epithelial Dysplasia
- Carcinoma in-situ
- Squamous Cell carcinoma.
- Dysplastic Cells in BASAL Layers of Epithelium
- Dysplastic Cells involving Full thickness Epithelium
- RARE; Invasion of Underlying Stromal Tissue
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Presentation
- When?
- What does it look like?
- Signs?
- Late Adulthood
- Ocular Irritation or Ocular Mass
- Variable; Clinical Differentiation b/w the 3 types UNRELIABLE!!
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Signs
- Irritation or Mass
a. May involve what 2 things?
b. Most common where? - Appearance? (4)
- a. Any area of the Conj or Cornea
b. In Interpalpebral Space at the Limbus - a. Gelatinous
b. White Leukoplakic
c. Papillomatous
d. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Signs: Appearance
- Gelationus
a. type of mass?
b. What is see on it? - White Leukoplakic
a. What is it?
- a. Jelly Like Mass
b. Superficial Feeder Vessels - a. White Plaque covering and obscuring lesion
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Signs: Appearance
- Papillomatous
a. lesion looks like what?
b. Vessels look like? - Squamous Cell Carcinoma
a. Lesion looks like what?
b. Vessel type?
c. May exhibit what?
d. May involve what?
e. What is RARE?
- a. Papilloma like lesion
b. Corkscrew-like surface vessels - a. Fleshy Pink Papillomatous Lesion
b. Feeder Vessels
c. Diffuse Growth (Looks like Chronic Conjunctivitis)
d. Cornea
e. Intraocular Extension and Metastasis is RARE
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Special Testing
- Ultrasonic Biomicroscopy (UBM)
a. Determines what? - Exfoliative Cytology?
- Impression Cytology?
- a. Depth of Lesion
- Scraping
- Cellulose Acetate Filter: Pressed onto Ocular Surface to Remove Cells
Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia (OSSN)
Treatment
- Main thing to do?
- Adjunctive therapy possible: Reduce Recurrence with what 4 things?
- Excision: 2-3 mm margin
- a. Cryotherapy
b. Interferon
c. Mitomycin C
d. 5-Fluorouracil
Conjunctival Papilloma
- Common?
- Benign or Metastatic?
- Uni or Bi?
- Found in whom?
- Secondary to what Sexually transmitted disease?
- Infection spread from mother to child via what?
- Uncommon
- Benign
- Unilateral, but Bilateral is possible although very rare
- Children and young adults
- HPV
- Infected Vagina
Conjunctival Papilloma
Signs
- 2 types of lesions?
a. Most common location?
b. 2 other locations? - Solitary?
- Sessile or Pedunculated Lesion
a. Juxtalimbal
b. Fornix and Caruncle - Multiple possible: May become Confluent
Conjunctival Papilloma
Signs: Large Lesions
- May encroach on what?
- May cause what?
- May interfere with what?
- on Cornea
- Irritation
- with Lid Closure
Conjunctival Papilloma
Symptoms
- Main things?
- Cosmetic
If LARGE: then IRRITATION, FBS, Lid Closure Complications
Conjunctival Papilloma
Treatment
- Small Lesions: What’s needed?
- Large Lesions: 2 things?
- Recurrence: What 4 things can be done?
- Not required. May resolve spontaneously
- Excision; Cryotherapy to base
- Alpha Interferon; CO2 Laser Vaporization; Cimetidine (Tagamet); Mitomycin C
Sclera
- What is it?
- Makes up how much of the thickness of the globe?
- Contains what 2 fibers types?
- 4 layers?
- Opaque Fibrous Outer Layer
- 5/6th of the thickness
- Collagen and Elastic
- Endothelium; Episclera; Lamina Fusca; Stroma
Episclera
- Is it vascular?
- Highly: Anterior Ciliary Arteries
Miscellaneous Anomalies of the Sclera/Episclera
3 of them
Osterogenesis Imperfecta
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Scleral Hyaline Plaque
Osterogenesis Imperfecta
- Genetic?
- Type of disease?
- Usually involves a Defect of what?
- At least 2 have Ocular Symptoms: What are they?
- AD
- Connective Tissue Disease
- of Type 1 Collagen Synthesis
- Type 1 and Type 2a
Osterogenesis Imperfecta
Type 1
- Genetic?
- Ocular Signs? (3 things)
a. Sclera?
b. Cornea? (2) - Systemic (6)
- AD
- a. Blue Sclera
b. Megalocornea and Corneal Arcus - a. Deafness
b. Dental Hypoplasia
c. Easy Breaking
d. Few Fractures
e. Hyperextensible Joints
f. Little or No Deformity
Osterogenesis Imperfecta
Type 2a
- Genetic?
- Ocular (2)
- Systemic (5)
- AD
- a. Blue Sclera
b. Shallow Orbits - a. Severe Deafness
b. Dental Anomalies
c. Multiple Fractures
d. Short Limbs
e. Death in Early Infancy (Respiratory Infection)
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- How common is it?
- Genetic?
- Disorder of what?
- Ocular Symptoms associated with what types?
- RARE
- AR
- of Collagen: Deficiency of LYSYL Hydroxylase
- Type 6. Type 4 (rarely)
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Skin
a. What about it?
b. Easily what?
c. Tendency for what? - Joints
a. What about them?
- a. Thin and Hyperelastic
b. Easily Bruised
c. for Papyraceous Scarring - a. Hypermobile: recurrent dislocation and Frequent Falls
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Cardiovascular
a. 2 things
- Bleeding Tendency and Dissecting Aneurysms
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Ocular
- Sclera: what about it?
- Type of Folds?
- Cornea?
- Retina?
Fragile Sclera (globe can rupture w/minor trauma)
- Epicanthal Folds
- Microcornea; Keratoconus; Keratoglobus; Myopia; ECTOPIA LENTIS
- Retinal Detachment
Scleral Hyaline Plaque
- AKA?
- Related to what?
- What is it?
- Location at Insertion of what?
- Benign or metastatic?
- Senile Hyaline Plaque
- Age related (probably)
- Bilateral, Oval, Dark Gray Plaques
- of Horizontal Recti
- Benign
Episcleritis
- Common?
- Benign?
- Idiopathic?
- Recurrent?
- Self-limiting?
- 2 Types?
- Common
- Usually
- Usually
- Occasionally
- usually
- a. Simple Episcleritis
b. Nodular Episcleritis
Episcleritis
Simple Episcleritis
- % of all cases?
- Seen more in whom?
- Does it recur?
- Frequency of episodes?
- 75%
- Females
- Frequently: Same eye; Both Eyes
- Decreases over time (may disappear after many years)
Episcleritis
Simple Episcleritis: Signs
- Hyperemia (injection)
a. 2 ways it can present?
b. Frequently what?
c. Increased in severity for what?
d. Fades when?
e. May be what?
- a. Sectoral or Diffuse
b. Interpalpebral
c. for first 12 hours
d. over 2-3 days
e. Unilateral or Bilateral or Switch
Episcleritis
Simple Episcleritis
- 2 signs?
- Treatment
a. Mild?
b. More severe?
- Redness; Mild Irritation
- a. None
b. Cool AT’s.
Mild Topical Steroid (FML or Lotemax qid 1-2 wks)
Oral NSAIDS: Ibuprofen 200-800mg po TID
Episcleritis
Nodular Episcleritis
- % of cases?
- Seen more in whom?
- Onset type?
- More prolonged what?
- Presentation?
- 25%
- Females
- Less Acute Onset
- More prolonged course
- Red eye upon waking. Area of redness increases in size and discomfort over 2-3 days
Episcleritis
Nodular Episcleritis
- 1 or more tender what?
a. Found w/in what? - Slit lamp section demonstrates what?
- 2.5% phenylephrine: does what?
- nodules
a. w/in interpalpebral fissure - that sclera is flat
- Blanches vessels; Better visualization of uninvolved sclera beneath
Episcleritis
Nodular Episcleritis
Signs
1. Episode is what?
- Repeated attacks can cause what?
- Treatment?
- Self-limited (lasts longer than simple)
- Can cause permanent Vessel Dilation
- Same as for simple
Episcleritis
Important differentials? (4)
Scleritis
Iritis
Conjunctivitis
Inflamed Pinguecula