Paediatric Ophthalmology Flashcards
What is the medical term for someone who is long sighted?
Hyperopic
What test can be done to calculate refractive error in young children who cannot read an eye chart?
Either use a picture chart or;
Bruchner Test or
Retinoscopy
What is a Bruchner Test?
Do a red reflex in both eyes. If the child is looking straight at you then if there are inferior presents that are not red this means myopia. If there are superior presents then this means hyperopia
What is the medical term for a lazy eye and what are the risk factors?
Amblyopia - occurs with disuse of that eye during development.
Risk factors - FHx, prematurity, developmental delay
What is Strabismus?
When one or both of the eyes is turned in or out?
What are the terms for an eye that is turned in and an eye that is turned out?
turned in - Exotropia
Turned out - Esotropia
What are therms terms for an eye that is only sometimes turned in/out?
Eso/exo - phoria
What are the terms for when an eye is pointing up or down?
Hypertropia
Hypotropia
What is the treatment for strabismus?
conservative first
surgery
What is the triad of examination findings in shaken baby syndrome?
Intracranial Haemorrhage
Brain Swelling
Retinal Haemorrhage
What is a Leukocoric pupil and what are the three major causes of it?
White out of red reflex in the newborn.
Congenital Cateracts
Retinoblastoma
Retinopathy of prematurity
Give 4 major causes of congential cataracts
Isdiopathic
Genetic
Metabolic
TORCH infection
