Puthoff Lecture 4 - Eye Flashcards
What is the most common cause of irreversible visual loss in the United States?
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
What are Pleomorphic adenomas of the lacrimal gland?
Encapsulated tumor of the orbit
What tumor may present clinically like idiopathic orbital inflammation?
Metastatic prostatic carcinoma
What is the most common malignancy of the eyelid?
What must you do?
Metastasizes yes or no?
Basal cell carcinoma
Excise it
Almost never
A diffusely thickened eyelid suggests what pathology?
Sebaceous carcinoma
What is the most common cause of blindness world-wide?
What else can it cause?
Chlamydia trachomatis
Conjunctival scarring
What are the risk factors for pinguecula and Pterygium?
How do they grow on the eye?
Which one crosses the cornea?
Sun/UV exposure (surfer’s eye), male in 20s-40s
Nasal eye to lateral
Pterygium
What classically causes blue sclera?
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Necrotizing scleritis occurs in what disease?
R.A.
What makes up the major refractive surface of the eye?
Cornea and overlying tear film
What is well-known to cause ulcerative keratitis?
Herpes
What is calcific band keratopathy characterized by?
Deposition of calcium in the Bowman layer
What does Actinic band keratopathy develop from?
Chronic exposure to high levels of UV light
Progressive thinning and ectatic of the cornea without evidence of inflammation or vascularization is called what?
Keratoconus
Keratoconus is associated with what?
Down syndrome, Marfan syndrome, atopic disorders
What develops from loss of endothelial cells and the resulting edema and thickening of the stroma?
Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy
What are the clinical manifestations of Fuchs endothelial dystrophy?
Indication for what?
Stromal edema and bullous keratopathy
Corneal transplant
What are deposits which generate discrete opacities in the cornea that may eventually compromise vision?
Mutation of what?
Stromal dystrophies
TGFB1
What are the RFs for cataracts?
Old age Smoking Sun DM Wilson's Galactosemia Atopic dermatitis
Prolonged use of steroids (corticosteroids) as in asthma puts you at risk for what?
Secondary Glaucoma
What is this describing? Peripheral zone of the iris adheres to the trabecular meshwork and physically impedes the egress of aqueous humor from the eye
Angle-closure glaucoma
What is this describing? Aqueous humor has complete access to meshwork, but here is increased resistance to aqueous outflow
Open-angle glaucoma
What is described by inflammation of the interior of the eye that extends into the uvea and sclera?
Panophthalmitis
What describes inflammation of the interior of the eye involving the vitreous humor
Endophthalmitis
