opthal gallery Flashcards
Patinet presents with conjunctival injection, poorly-reactive mid-dilated, corneal cloudiness or edema. Outline:
- Symptoms you would expect
- findings on examination
- common causes
- gold standard diagnosis
- treatment

Angle-closure glaucoma - ophthal emergency
- Exam:shallow anterior chamber, atrophy of optic nerve head (cupping), peripheral visual defect
- visual loss, headache, severe eye pain, light haloes, N/V
- causes: primary (narrowing of angle), secondary (factors that push/pull anterior chamber closed e.g. fibrosis, drugs, neovascularizations etc)
- gonioscopy - use of special lens with slit lamp to view iridocorneal angle
- treatment
- emergency use of topical beta blocker (timolol), alpha agonist (apraclonidine), pilocarpine. +/- IV acetazolamide, mannitol
- analgesia and anti-emetics
- Once acute attack is controlled, definitive tx is laser peripheral iridotomy.
- Prevention - fellow eye should be treated prophylactically within the next few days, avoid decongestants and anticholinergic medication

iritis

corneal ulcer

HSV herpes simplex keratitis

stye

retinal hemorrhage

pterygium

preseptal cellulitis

pre septal cellulitis

penetrating eye injury

orbital cellulitis

molluscum contagiosum

melbomian cyst

lower lid ectopion

keratitic precipitate - pus in the anterior chamber. late sign in iritis

hyphaema

entropion

basal cell carcinoma

diabetic non proliferative

diabetic proliferative

acute glaucoma
assymetry of cup:disc ratio between eyes
cupping of disc presents with increased cup:disc ratio
ischemic atrophy of optic nerve causing atrophic cupping of the disc

age related macular degeneration

cataracts on a slit lamp exam

central retinal artery occlusion
cherry red spot

retinal branch vein occlusion

Actie trachoma
- chlamydia trachomatis
- Follicular inflammation visible (>0.5mm)
- Herberts pits - shallow pits in the cornea that form as a result of corneal rupture
- treatment - topical tetracycline BD, or stat dose of azithromcin
- Prevention - SAFE strategy by WHO: Surgery if indicated, abx therapy, facial hygiene, environmental control