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Ophthalmology Flashcards

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Cataracts: risk factors

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  • Ageing / Senility
  • Corticosteroid therapy
  • Diabetes
  • Hypoparathyroidism
  • Dystrophia myotonia
  • Trauma (may be delayed)
  • Ocular disease (e.g. glaucoma)
  • Smoking
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Cataracts features

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– Reading Difficulty
– Difficulty in recognising faces
– Problem with driving especially at night
– Difficulty with television viewing
– Reduce ability to see in bright light (glaring)
– May see haloes around light

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Traumatic cataract features

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  • under 45 years of age
  • injury to the lens by foreign body or direct impact
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Cataracts management

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  • Intraocular lens
    -phaecoemulsification to replace intraocular lens
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Hyphaema causes

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Trauma (squash ball, rugby)
- Blood clotting disturbances
- Medications (anticoagulants)
- Neovascularisation (diabetic retinopathy, previous eye surgery0
- melanoma or retinoblastoma
- abnormal vasculature

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Hyphaemia features

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  • presence of blood in the anterior chamber
  • ## impaired visual acuity
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Hyphaemia management

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  • Urgent referral to the ophthalmologist
  • bed rest with the head elevated 30 to 45° with eye shield
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Unilateral cataract features

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– A progressive blurring of vision.
– Glare, especially in bright light or when driving at night
– Monocular double vision

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Nasolacrimal duct obstruction features

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  • Clear eye discharge & crusting of the eyelashes
  • No redness or irritation
  • 6 to 20% of newborns
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Nasolacrimal duct obstruction management

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  • resolves spontaneously
  • requires antibiotics only when
    complicated conjunctivitis or dacryocystitis
  • Ophthalmologic consultation if persists past 12 months of age or earlier if complicated by recurrent infection
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Diabetic retinopathy screening

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2 yearly by either optometrist or ophthalmologist unless:

  • Aboriginal and Torrens Islanders
  • Non-English-speaking backgrounds
  • Visual loss
  • Poor diabetic control
  • hypertension
    -hyperlipidaemia
  • anaemia
  • renal disease
    -long duration of diabetes
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Diabetic retinopathy predictors

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  1. Non-English-speaking backgrounds
  2. Duration of diabetes
  3. Control of diabetes
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Diabetic retinopathy screening in diabetic pregnant women

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1st trimester

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Diabetic retinopathy screening in children

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Puberty

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Diabetic retinopathy screening in gestational diabetes

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diabetes persists after pregnancy

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Diabetic retinopathy screening in Non proliferative diabetic retinopathy

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Screen every 3–6 months

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Diabetic retinopathy risk factors

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-Poor glycemic control.
-Longer duration diabetes.
-Poor lipid or blood pressure control.
-Aboriginal and Torrens Islanders

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Diabetic retinopathy management

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Prophylactic photocoagulation

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Base orbital fracture features

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  • Damage to infraorbital nerve failing to “push” the eyeball up
    1. Diplopia when gazing upwards
    2. enophthalmos (eye receding into the orbit)
    3. Numbness (cheek, upper lip, or upper gingiva)
  • Blurry vision
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Superior orbital fracture features

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  • vertical diplopia when gazing downwards
  • no numbness
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Zygomatic fracture features

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  • horizontal diplopia
  • Mallar flattening
    -difficulty in opening mouth
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Hyphaemia complications

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  • recurrent bleeding
  • glaucoma
  • blood staining of the cornea
  • all leading to permanent vision loss
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Nasal bone fracture features

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  • horizontal diplopia
  • cerebrospinal fluid leakage
  • epistaxis
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Glaucoma risk factors

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-The family history of glaucoma.
-Myopia.
-Diabetes Mellitus.
– Migraine.
– History of trauma to the eyes
– Abnormal blood pressure

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Tripod fracture features

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  • vertical/horizontal/oblique diplopia
  • difficulty in mastication
26
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Open angle glaucoma treatment

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  • STAMP
    -Supine Position
  • Timolol topical (carteolol)
  • Acetazolamide IV
  • Mannitol
    -Pilocarpine topical
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Long term treatment of acute closed-angle glaucoma

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Laser iridotomy

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Long term treatment of chronic open-angle glaucoma

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Laser trabeculectomy

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Difference between hypermetropia & presbyopia

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Age 40 and is completed at 60

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Contraindication to timolol

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– severe hypotension
– chronic obstructive airways disease
– Moderate to severe asthma
– uncontrolled cardiac failure
– bradycardia or second or third-degree atrioventricular block

31
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Eye corticosteroid side- effects

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– Microbial keratitis
– Corneal thinning
– Delayed corneal healing
– Corneal perforation
– Cataract formation
– Raised intraocular pressure
– Glaucomatous optic neuropathy

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Acute closed angle glaucoma features

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  • rapidly increased IOP
  • pain
  • nausea
  • blurred vision
  • eye redness
  • hazy cornea
    -pupils partially or fully dilated and unresponsive to light (anisocoria)
  • NO photophobia
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Indications for referral of Ophthalmologist

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– Penetrating eye injury or intraocular foreign body
– Incomplete removal or practitioner uncertainty
– Persisting foreign body symptoms
– Persisting rust ring
– Persisting vision loss
– Keratitis
– Endophthalmitis
– Paediatric or uncooperative patients that may require examination under anaesthesia

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Features of retinal detachment

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  • Hx of trauma, diabetic retinopathy, myopia and cataract surgery
  • sudden onset of floaters, flashes and field defects
  • painless loss of vision
  • dark shadow (curtain closing) of affected eye
35
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Features of Posterior Vitreous detachment

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  • Age >70 years (66%)
    -Vision acuity preserved
36
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Unilateral exophthalmos features

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  • most common Graves’s disease (Thyrotoxicosis)
  • orbital pseudotumor
  • orbital cellulitis
  • cavernous sinus
  • thrombosis
  • retrobulbar
  • retro-orbital tumours
  • Congenital glaucoma
    Nasopharyngeal tumours
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Retinal artery occlusion fundoscopic features

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  • Cherry red spot
  • Retinal whitening
38
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Chronic simple glaucoma fundoscopic features

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  • increased ratio of the optic cup to the
    optic disc
  • retinal vessels seem to be cut/ broken upon entering optic disk
39
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external hordeolum (stye) pathogen

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Staphylococcus aureus

40
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external hordeolum (stye)

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Warm compresses

41
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Strabismus cut-off point

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  • 5 to 6 months to align by itself
  • Correcting strabismus before 4-6 years
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dacryocystitis management

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  • flucloxacillin
  • amoxicillin
  • clavulanate
  • cephalexin
43
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Macular degeneration features

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  • blurry centre of her vision
  • distortion of objects (straight lines wavy)
44
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Types of age related macular degeneration

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Dry
- slow progression
- 90% of AMD cases
- drusen, pigmentation and
sometimes haemorrhages at macula

Wet
- rapid deterioration
- abnormal vessels grow from the choroid into the neurosensory retina &leak macula
- rapid deterioration

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Hypertensive retinopathy features

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  • papilloedema
  • straightening of the vessels
  • thickened opacified vessel walls
  • arteriovenous nicking
46
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Bacterial conjuctivitis treatment

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Chloramphenicol

47
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inflammation of meibomian glands

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Internal hordeolum

48
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Features of viral conjunctivitis

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  • adenovirus
  • watery eyes
  • uni or bilateral affection
  • contact lenses
  • usually painless
  • vision preserved
49
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Features of allergic conjunctivitis

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  • can be watery
  • bilateral
    -history of contact hypersensitivity (changing contact lenses), hay fever
  • usually painless
  • vision preserved
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Features of keratitis

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  • herpes simplex/zoster infection
  • circumcorneal dendritic ulceration
  • eye pain and redness
  • grittiness (foreign body)
    -photophobia
  • lacrimation
  • vision and pupillary reflex normal
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Features of acute uveitis (iritis)

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  • eye pain and redness
  • visual acuity may be decreased
  • photophobia
  • hypopyon (white cells precipitating in anterior chamber)
    -irregular constricted pupil (reflex abnormal)
    -history of prior surgery (phacoemulsification)
  • also associated with seronegative arthropathies (ankylosing spondylitis, RA, IBD)
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53
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Traumatic cataract features

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  • under 45 years of age
  • injury to the lens by foreign body or direct impact
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Conditions that require urgent referral to Ophthalmologist

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  • Significant eye trauma, burns, embedded foreign body in cornea, intraocular foreign body
  • Hyphaemia (>3mm)/hypopyon
  • Corneal ulcer
  • Severe conjunctivitis
  • Uveitis/ acute iritis
  • Behcet syndrome
  • acute glaucoma
  • giant cell arteritis
  • acute dacryocystitis
  • endophthalmitis
  • herpes zoster ophthalmicus
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features of retinal artery occlusion

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unilateral + sudden onset of significant vision loss
- preceded by transient monocular blindness

56
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Types of retina artery occlusion

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attach pics

57
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Hypopyon

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sign not diagnosis
indicates uveitis

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Management of subconjunctival haemorrhage

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  • red discolouration NOT crossing the limbus = warm compress
  • red discoloration CROSSING the limbus = find underlying cause (Orbit CT)
  • AVOID NSAID’s
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Management of episcleritis

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  • Hypromellose (artificial tears) 4-6 times/day
  • Topical NSAID’s diclofenac
    NOTE: Topical steroids (prednisolone) if all above not helping
60
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Difference between subconjunctival haemorrhage & episcleritis

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Subconjunctival haemorrhage:
- micro tears in the sclera that cause haemorrhages, eyes appears dark red due to the accumulation of blood, but could also turn blue/purple/yellow after
- no discomfort with the exception of trauma
Episcleritis:
- Patchy pinkish/redness of the eye usually found in the corner
- no discharge, itchiness
- mild discomfort
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Difference between episcleritis & scleritis

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  • If a patient’s eye redness improves after phenylephrine instillation = episcleritis
  • scleritis is painful

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