Ophthalmology / Otology Flashcards
Most common genetic cause for congenital visual impairment (1) and other features (3)
- Leber convenital amaurosis (retinal dystrophy)
- Features
- Visual impairment beginning a 3-4 months > nystagmus and sluggish pupils
- midface hypoplasia
- Cognitive / developmental delay
What does this show?
Optic nerve edema from optic neuritis NOT papilledema (pictured below)
What does this show?
Optic disk edema and splinter hemorrhages 2/2 AION
What does this show?
Optic atrophy (From longstanding MS)
- pale, “shrunken” appearing disc
- pallor extends beyond margins of disc
Location of vertical and horizontal Gaze Centers
Centers for:
Saccaddes
Pursuit
- Saccades
- Contralateral frontal lobe
- Pursuit
- Ipsilateral parietal / occipital
nerve most commonly injured in head trauma
CN IV
Midbrain:
Structures (7)
Locations of Injury (2)
Lesions of the third Nerve Nuclei
- Superior rectus nucleus (Contralateral)
- Levator nucleus (levator palpebrae)
- NOTE: single nuclei controls both eyes
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- NOTE: single nuclei controls both eyes
Patient arrives with right CN III nuclear palsy:
how do you tell if the levator nuclei was damaged?
- levator nuclei
- Bilateral ptosis (injured) or NO ptosis at all (not injured)
- Superior rectus nuclei
- Injured = left SR is damaged
- not injured: NO SR damage
Patient arrives with right CN III palsy and bilateral ptosis
what was damaged?
CN III nuclei with invovlement of levator palpebare nucleus
Pons Anatomy (9)
Patient arrives with isolated CN III palsy
What is the significance of also having:
Contralateral hemiparesis? (3)
Contralateral hand tremor? (3)
Cerebellar ataxia? (3)
Contralateral hand tremor AND cerebellar ataxia?
- Contralateral hemiparesis = Weber
- CN III fascicle
- pyramidal tract
- Contralateral hand tremor = benedikt syndrome
- CN III fascicle
- Red nucleus
- Cerebellar ataxia = Nothnagles
- CN III fascicle
- superior cerebellar peduncle
- Both 2 and 3 = claude’s syndrome
Patient arrives with Abducens palsy
what is the significance of also having:
Ipsilateral Facial palsy + Contralateral Hemiparesis (4).
Ipsilateral loss of facial sensation, facial palsy, and horners syndrome?
- VI, VII palsy + CL hemiparesis = Millard-Gubler syndrome
- VI fascicles
- VII fascicles
- Pyramidal tract
- Facial sensation, facial palsy, and horners = Fovile’s syndrome
- CN V
- CN VI nucleus
- CN VII nucleus and sympathetics
Why does blown pupil with CN III raise concerns?
Nerve fibers corresponding to pupillary constriction are in the periphery, and thus are targeted during compressing lesions (like aneurysm)
Features of Dorsal Midbrain syndrome
Vertical gaze palsy
Convergence - retraction nystagmus
lid retraction
Patient comes in with:
Vertical gaze Palsy
lid Retraction
Pulsating in-and-out movements of eyes with vertically moving OKN drum
Where is the lesion?
what are you suspecting as the cause?
what would you not expect to see?
Dorsal midbrain (Dorsal midbrain syndrome)
suspect:
OLD = Stroke
young = Pinealoma
would NOT expect to see pupillary light-near dissociation
Patient unable to look left, but eyes look left when head is passively turned to the right
what does this tell you?
This is a supranuclear lesion due to positive doll’s eye maneuver
(possibly due to frontal lobe stroke)
Horizontal or vertical gaze palsy but positive Doll’s eye in that direction suggets what?
supranuclear lesion
What does this show?
what is damaged?
What two other features will you see?
Bilateral Intranuclear ophthalmoplegia (bilateral limitation of ADDuction)
Damage to medial longitudinal fasciculus
Will also see:
beating nystagmus of adducting eye
vertical skew deviation = vertical diplopia
(#2)
What does this show?
what is the syndrome?
Right horizontal Gaze palsy + Right medial rectus palsy when looking left
One-and-a-half-syndrome
“Painful horners”
Make sure to rule out what?
What should you also see (3)?
Carotid Dissection
Vision loss IL to horners
Headache IL to horners
CL hemiparesis
What is damaged here?
What will worsen the pupillary finding?
Sypathetic innervation to the right eye (horners)
Anisocoria will be more evident in DIM light (sympathetics / Dilation is what is affected)
How would we confirm this diagnosis?
Option 1:
what drug?
what do you see?
Option 2:
what drug?
what do you see?
Option 1: Cocaine
- Affected Pupil will NOT dilate
Aproclonidine
- Affected WILL dilate
Threshold for physiologic anisocoria
<1-2 mm
What is this showing?
What does this suggest?
If this wasn’t present, what would you want to exclude?
Horners syndrome with hypochromia of the iris
congenital horners (also feed into melanocytes of eye)
pediatric acquired horners = r/o pineoblastoma
Woman with this eye finding and “wiggly” pupillary movements.
What other finding would you see?
How would you test?
Light-near dissociation (picture)
Dilute Pilocarpine
Will cause constriction (because it’s hypersensitive)
Woman with this eye finding and “wiggly” pupillary movements.
what is injured?
what are the two most common causes?
Ciliary gangion
“wiggly” = vermiform movements
most common causes:
post-viral
trauma / surgery to eye
What does this show?
What conditions can you see it in (3) ?
Light-Near dissociation
Seen in:
Argyll-Robertson pupil (tertiary syphilis)
Parinaud’s dorsal midbrain syndrome (stroke in adult, pinealoma in children)
Adie’s tonic pupil (post-viral or post-surgery)
(accomodates but does not react)
Label the Following:
Diseases associated with
Unilateral central scotoma
Bilateral central scotoma
Unilateral central scotoma = optic neuritis / MS
Bilateral = toxic / medication
- Ethambutol for tuberculosis
- Thiamine deficiency
- Leber’s hereditary neuropathy
leber’s hereditary neuropathy:
Vision problems are worse with _____
Smoking
Difference between pituitary microadenoma and pituitary macroadenoma and why is it imporant?
Microadenoma = \<10 mm macroadenoma = \>10 mm
> 10 mm and you are more likely to have visual impairment
Patient reports loss of vision only when sketching fine details in sketchbook
what tumor could cause this?
what is it typically associated with?
Tumor in optic chiasm (i.e. Pineal tumor)
typically associated with bitemporal hemianopsia
when convergin, “blind” temporal fields overlap