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1
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What is the most common cause of visual blindness in children?

A

Cerebral visual impairment

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What is the most important electrophysiology test?

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ERG

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What is the minimum age an EOG can be performed on and why?

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7 years old because requires a lot of patient co operation

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What are three ophthalmic tests that can be done to assess the retina?

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  • OCT
  • Electrophysiology
  • Ultrasound
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What test should be the last thing you do at the end of your paeds examination?

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Ophthalmoscopy

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How do you assess the retina and optic nerve in detail? And why do we do this?

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Using OCT and electrophysiology (ERG, EOG, VEP) because retinal signs and optic nerve disorders can be very subtle but also co-occur

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What is used to conduct an ERG?

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Skin or conjunctival electrode

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What are the two frequencies an ERG is done at ?

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2 & 30 Hz

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What is presented with a VEP?

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A flash or a pattern which tells you the intactness of the visual pathway - limited

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What eye condition is normally associated with an absence of septum pellucidum (the middle of the brain that splits the two hemispheres)?

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Optic nerve hypoplasia

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Why are two frequencies used in an ERG?

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2 Hz are for rods assessment
30 Hz are cone assessment

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What do the patients of the two right ERGS have wrong with them and how do you know that ?

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They have no cones, at 30 Hz there was no response

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What classifies whether a baby is premature and how many people get affected by this?

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Born before 37 weeks, affects 5-8%

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Does vision start to develop from the preterm date (that is if the baby is premature) or the due date?

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Due date

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What are some signs of a preterm baby’s retina?

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Not fully vascularised and thin vessels

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What week of gestation do blood vessels come out the optic disc?

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12-13 weeks

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17
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At what point of gestation is the retina fully vascularised?

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Full term time

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With pre term babies, as their retinas are not fully vascularised, where do their retinas get blood supply from?

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Choroid

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What are the two phases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)?

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Acute phase and sequelae

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How long does the acute phase last?

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Only occurs until a few weeks until after birth
*we dont need to know details about what this is

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What can severe ROP cause?

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Blindness but can be prevented with timely screening

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Can mild ROP resolve without major sequelae?

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Yes :) just like anisha and hardeep

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Where on the Retina does ROP develop?

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At the junction between vascularised and non-vascularised retina

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How many stages are there of ROP?

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5

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25
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Which stages are classified into mild ROP?

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Stage 1 and 2

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26
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What does stage 1 look like?

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White line within the retina is formed

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What is stage 2?

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White line becomes a ridge

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What is stage 3?

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Ridge with extra retinal fibrovascular proliferation (similar to DM - has CWS and neovasc of bv coming out of the retina into the vitreous)

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What stage is this?

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3

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What changes in regard to the BVs from mild ROP to stage 3 ROP?

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Bv become thick and tortuous

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31
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If ROP is left untreated what might the child get?

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An RD

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32
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What is stage 4 ROP?

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Partial RD

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33
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What is stage 5?

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Total RD

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34
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What is stage 5?

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Total RD

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35
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Why is the risk for blindness greater in India than here?

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They have a greater prevalence of pre term babies

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36
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Why is the screening programme for preterm babies tight?

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There is a narrow window for treating babies with ROP (you have to catch the baby at exactly the right time)

37
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What is treatment for severe acute ROP?

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Cryotherapy, laser and AntiVEGF

38
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What is cryotherapy?

A

Freezing the retina where the tear has occurred

39
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What are patients who were born premature likely to have who have had NO or mild ROP?

A

Slightly reduced va and contrast

40
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What acuity is a patient who has severe ROP likely to have?

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Ranges from normal to blind

41
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What acuity is a patient who has severe ROP likely to have?

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Ranges from normal to blind

41
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What acuity is a patient who has severe ROP likely to have?

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Ranges from normal to blind

42
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What % of preterm babies will have strabismus?

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20% (it’s only 3% in full term babies!)

43
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If a baby had severe ROP what is the likelihood of having strabismus? (%)

44
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What does prematurity do to the eye?

A

Cornea develops abnormally so they have a mild degree of keratoconous and myopia

45
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What is a px who has had severe ROP likely to have?

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Very high myopia (16-20D)

46
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What is this ? + at what stages does it occur?

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Dragged disc - this is temporal retina is pulling or dragging of the disc and vessels
Stage 3 or after

47
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What are causes of a dragged disc?

A
  • ROP
  • Exudative vitreoretinopathies
  • Norrie’s disease
  • Congenital fold
    *all of which are rare diseases
48
Q

What is this? And what is that white stuff?

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End stage ROP, px likely to be blind, retrofibroplasia is the white stuff

49
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In baby what is the ONLY cause if a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage?

50
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If you see a retinal haemorrhage like this, what are you thinking could have happened to the baby?

A

Shaken baby syndrome

51
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What is this disease?

A

Coat’s disease

52
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What are some features of Coat’s disease?

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  • M>F
  • Unilateral
  • Retinal telangiectasia (massive exudates and RD)
  • Systemic association

In the lecture just says know these vascular diseases exists, so down worry if you do not know this

53
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What is this disease and some features of the disease?

A

Von Hippel Lindau syndrome
Bilateral, both sexes, tumours of the brain and retina

54
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What is this disease ?

A

Sickle cell retinopathy

55
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What people is sickle cell more prevalent in?

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African or Mediterranean origin

56
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What are some signs of the Retina with sickle cell retinopathy?

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Peripheral occlusion of BV, neovasc, could regress or cause RD

57
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What are five names of infections of the Retina?

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  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Cytomegalovirus
  • TB
  • Rubella
  • Toxocara
58
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What does this px have?

A

Toxoplasmosis

59
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What type of infection is toxoplasmosis?

60
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How can you get toxoplasmosis?

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Eating raw meat or eating food that has been contaminated by cat faeces

61
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What else might someone with toxoplasmosis have?

A

Lesions to the brain, cataract, uveitis

62
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What is toxocara?

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Worm infection from a cat or dog

63
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What is similar to toxoplasmosis?

A

Toxocara however, toxocara only occurs in one eye

64
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What is this ?

65
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Is rubella rare in this country?

A

Yes because we have all be vaccinated

66
Q

What problems can someone who has rubella have?

A

Heart defects, deafness, mental retardation, small eyes, pigmented retinopathy

67
Q

What does this px have and describe the fundus?

A

Speckled pigment giving a mottled appearance
(rubella- salt and pepper appearance)

68
Q

What is someone with cmv likely to also have?

69
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What does CMV stand for ?

A

Cytomegalovirus

70
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What does this px have?

71
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What ophthalmic issues is a px with CMV likely to have?

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Microphthalmos, cataract, keratitis, optic atrophy

72
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What are some stationary retinal dystrophies?

A
  • Congenital night-blindness
  • Achromatopsia
73
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What does someone with congenital night blindness have a disorder of?

A

Rods (associated with myopia)

74
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What are five signs of someone with achromatopsia will have?

A
  • Reduced vision
  • Photosensitivity
  • Nystagmus
  • High hyperopia
  • Absent flicker on an ERG
  • Normal looking retina
75
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What is a disease of a child with a progressive rod-cone retinal dystrophy?
(There are three)

A
  • Leber’s congenital amaurosis
  • Retinitis pigmentosa
  • Choroideremia
76
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What signs would a child with Leber’s congenital amaurosis have?

A

Reduced vas
Nystagmus
High hyperopia
Normal Retina ( can later become pigmentary)
Flat ERG

77
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If a child comes in with high hyperopia, nystagmus, reduced vas and sensitive to light, what two conditions should you be thinking of ?

A

Achromtopsia and Leber’s congenital amaurosis

78
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What are four inherited macular dystrophies?

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  • Stargardt’s disease
  • X-linked retinoschisis
    -Best’s disease
  • Pattern dystrophy
79
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As the signs are very subtle, what are the patients often labelled as?

A

Hysterical

80
Q

What does leucocoria mean?

A

White pupil

81
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Name some diseases with leucocoria

A
  • Retinoblastoma
  • Cataract
  • ROP
  • Developmental anomalies such as a Coloboma
  • Coat’s disease
82
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What is the most common malignant ocular tumour of childhood?

A

Retinoblastoma

83
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Is a retinoblastoma likely to be bilateral or unilateral?

A

Unilateral

84
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What are three presentations of someone with retinoblastoma?

A

Leucocoria, strab, glaucoma

85
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What is treatment of retinoblastoma (it is a tumour remember)?

A

Chemotherapy

86
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What does ROP mean?

A

Retinopathy Of Prematurity

87
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Which stages are considered severe ROP?

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Stage 3-5; they require treatment

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