Refractory Errors Flashcards
UVA rays absorbed by
Lens (after cataract surgery)
UVB rays absorbed by (which part of eye)
Cornea
What can UVB rays cause
Snow blindness
Welding flash
Photokeratitis
Photophthalmia
Causes of infrared rays on eyes
Photoretinitis
Foveal burn
Patient with decreased vision
Pinhole vision improves in?
Pinhole vision further decreased in?
Improves in refractive errors
Decreased in central media opacities/foveal pathology
Emmetropia definition
When accommodation of patient is at rest parallel rays of light are focused at a single point on the retina
Causes of myopia
Axial
Curvatural
Index
Positional
High myopia
> -6 D
And retinal change
Common type of retinal detachment in myopes
Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Type of staphyloma possible in myopes
Posterior staohyloma
Tigroid fungus possibly present in
Myopes
Foster fuch’s spots possibly present in
Myopes
Lenses minify images
1D = ——— % minify 3D= ——— % minify
2%
6%
Causes of hypermetropia
Adil
Curvatural
Index
Positional
Pseudopapillitis seen in
Hypermetropes
Types of total hypermetropia
Latent (due to ciliary body tone)
Manifest
Types of manifest hypermetropia
Facultative
Absolute
Anisometropia definition
Difference in refractive error of 2 eyes
Anisokonia definition
Difference in image seen by 2 eyes
Aphakia refractive error
+16 D
Aphakia refractive power
+44 D
Anterior chamber in aphakia
Deep
Purkinje images in aphakic person
2
Spectacles correction and magnification percentage in aphakic
16 D
Image size 32%
Pincushion aberration seen in
Correction of aphakia
Prismatic aberration/sowing ring scotoma/jack in box
Correction of aphakia