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Opthamology Flashcards

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Causes of subjunctival heamorrhage

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Idiopathic but can be after sneezing or vomiting

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Key factors in eyelid injuries

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Restore anatomy
Close in layers
Retain function
Minimise scar

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Muscles in charge of ptosis

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Levator palpebrae superioris

Superior tarsal muscle

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Bones of the orbit

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Palantine
Ethmoid
Lacrimal
Maxillary
Zygomatic
Frontal
Sphenoid
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What are the extra occular muscles?

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Superior and inferior obliques
Lateral and medial rectus
Superior and inferior rectus

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Innervation of occular muscles

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Occulomotor-inferior oblique, medial, superior and inferior rectus
Trochlear- superior oblique
Abducens- lateral rectus

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Muscles of eyelid

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Orbicularis oculi (CN7) closes lid
Levator palpebrae (CN3) opens lid
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Anatomy of eyelid

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Tarsal plate-makes it hard to invert

Conjunctiva-lines inside of lid and outside of eyeball and produces mucins

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Tear film

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10-12 microlitres of fluid on surface of the eye
allows eyelid to flow over eye
3 layers
Mucins
Aqueous
Oil (stops evaporation)
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Main lacrimal gland vs accessory lacrimal gland function

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Main-reflex watering when something is stuck in your eye

Accessory lacrimal gland produce tear film fluid

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Where do tears go?

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Lacrimal canaliculi which then lead into lacrimal sac then lacrimal duct

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Difference between cranial nerve three palsy and horners syndrome?

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Both have pstosis
CN3 palsy: eye turned out and big pupil
Horner’s Syndrome: narrow pupil

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Orbital septum

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White tough barrier between orbit and lid tissues stretching from tarsus to orbital rim-important to determine if inflammation is behind or in front if this

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Orbital blow out fracture mechanism

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Orbital floor cracks under trauma and the contents fall down into maxillary sinus
Gives black eye (haematoma), infraorbital nerve loss, double vision and downgaze or upgaze

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Thyroid eye disease mechanism

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Enlarged extra ocular (recti) muscles push the eyeball out of the socket so it bulges

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length of average eye

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2.5cm

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Myopia(short sighted) vs Hyperopia (longsighted) vs astigmatism

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Myopia- focuses in front of retina
Hyperopia-light focuses behind the retina
Astigmatism-light focuses in lots of different places

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Cornea

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600 microns (viewed with slit lamp)
Epithelial, stroma and endothelium- has an endothelial pump and barrier to pump water out of stroma to dehydrate it (better for light)
No blood vessels
Massive innervation
2/3 of light bending done at cornea (due to curvature and difference in refractive index between air and water)
Fixed power lens

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Diseases which affect cornea

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Corneal dystrophies, scars, keratoconus (cornea looks like a rugby ball), increased thickness

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Imaging cornea

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IVCm confocal
Anterior OCT
Computerised topography
Biomechanical corvis st (air puff)

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Keratoconus

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Multifactorial-familial, eye rubbing, down syndrome
“two hit hypothesis”
Most common cause of corneal transplant
Begins at puberty

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Lens

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Variable power lens
Connected to ciliary body by zonules
matrix on outside but mostly cells
Epithelial layer on outside, fibre cells within
Nucleus of lens present at utero-grows cortex during life

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Cataract

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precipitation of protein within lens cells
Areas can extend into centre or on edges
Diagnosis-opthalmoscope and slit lamp with reduced visual acuity and lens opacity
usually age related
Treated with phacoemulsification surgery

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Ciliary body

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Contains ciliary muscle which surrounds eye and is responsible for accommodation
Relaxed-ciliary muscle at biggest diameter
Contracted-makes lens fatter-when looking at close things
Ciliary epithelium produces aqueous humor which fills area between lens and iris (constant into anterior chamber) drains into trabecular meshwork. Damaged trabecular meshwork = increased ocular pressure

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Retina components

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Optic disc with optic nerve and retinal artery

Fovea-centre of visual acuity

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Retina functions

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Absorb photons
Turn light into chemical message
Turns chemical message into electrical impulse
Transmits electrical impulse to the brain via ganglion cells

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Cell types in retina

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Most posterior = photoreceptors (rods and cones)
Bipolar linker cells
ganglion cells = send impulse to brain

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Why is the retina back to front

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Photoreceptors are highest energy consuming cells in the body so need direct contact with endothelial cells which give nutrients and remove waste

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Central and peripheral retina differences

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Central-more rods and cones

Peripheral-fewer cones but more rods(good for detecting movement)

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Fovea optimises light entry?

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Bipolar and ganglion cells moved out of the way so light directly hits photoreceptor
Most cones (responsible for visual acuity and colour vision)
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Macula lutea

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Pigmented area around fovea containing xanothophyll caratenoids which prevent light damaging foveal cones

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Optic nerve

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No photoreceptors
Causes blind spot-covered by binoccular vision
Alongside retinal artery and vein

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Colour absorbancy

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Red cone-longest wavelength
Green cone
Blue cone-shortest wavelength

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Colour blindness

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More common in males

Most commonly green-red

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Glaucoma

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Old age
Specific pattern of axonal loss
elevated intraocular pressure
Visual loss-open angle and closed angle

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IOP assessment

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Normal 11-22mmHg

Linked to glaucoma but some people with it have normal pressure

37
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Open angle glaucoma

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Most common

2nd cause of blindness in NZ

38
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Closed angle glaucoma

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only 5% of glaucoma cases
Rapid onset pain and redness
vomitting abdo pain
Mid dilated pupil

39
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Optic nerve cupping

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Increased pressure/glaucoma equals cuppingof optic nerve- half has to be gone before any vision loss occurs effects peripheral vision first (tunnel vision)

40
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Common retinal disorders

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Retinal detachment
Diabetic retinopathy
Macular degeneration -wet or dry peripheral vision normal but central vision lost

41
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How to test visual acuity

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Measured at 6 metres
Described in angles to remove distance factor
6/24 means measured at 6 metres, able to read line 24 of snellen chart

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What makes up left visual field in the brain

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Temporal hemi field in left eye (90 degrees)

Nasal hemi field in right eye (60 degrees)

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What makes up right visual field in the brain

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Temporal hemi field in right eye

Nasal hemi field left eye

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Optic nerve in relation to macula

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Optic nerve is always NASAL to macula

Blind spot is always temporal on visual field (if dark spot on the left then it is left eye)

45
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Pathology in both temporal hemi fields lost

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Optic chiasm

Bitemporal hemiopia

46
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Pathology in left temporal hemi field and right nasal hemi field loss

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Right side-posterior to optic chiasm

Left homonymous hemiopia

47
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Pathology in loss of superior part of both left temporal and right nasal

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Right optic tract inferior and posterior to chiasm

Left superior homonymous quadratinopia

48
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Marcus Gunn pupil

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Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect
Shine light in normal eye=both pupils constrict
Shine light in abnormal eye=both pupils dilate

49
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How to reveal a squint (strabismus) with cover up test

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Convergent squint:
Normal eye covered, squinting eye moves outwards
Divergent squint:
Normal eye covered, squinting eye moves inwards

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How to reveal a squint (strabismus) with light reflection test

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When shining a light 33cm away, reflexes should be symmetrical in both eyes
A reflex displaced outwards=convergent strabismus
A reflex displaced inwards= divergent squint

51
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5 different types of Ishihara plates (non-diagnostic)

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Alternating-see different number if you are colour blind or not
Hidden-normal people see no number
Invisible-normal people see a number
Diagnostic-normal people see 2 numbers, colour blind see 1
Non-verbal plates

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