What are some conditions involving pupil size and function

Question 1

Both pupils may be constricted or dilated due to what?

Answer 1

Brain injury, prescription, or illegal drug use

Question 2

Both pupils may be constricted or dilated due to what?

Answer 2

Brain injury, prescription, or illegal drug use

Question 3

The conditions of pupil size and function ________ except for coloboma and Argyll Robertson pupil?

Answer 3

unilateral

Question 4

What two conditions of pupil size and function are NOT unilateral?

Answer 4

Coloboma and Argyll Robertson pupil

Question 5

This is pupil inequality

Answer 5

Physiologic (congenital) anisocoria

Question 6

Physiologic anisocoria is pupil inequality of what size?

Question 7

Are there companion symptoms associated with physiological anisocoria?

Answer 7

no

Question 8

Inequality of pupil size.

Answer 8

Anisocoria

Question 9

What can cause anisocoria?

Answer 9

Congenital, associated with head trauma or diseases of the nervous system.

Question 10

A fixed, dilated pupil with poor response to the papillary reflexes.

Answer 10

Adie’s tonic pupil

Question 11

Most cases of Adie’s’ tonic pupil are what?

Answer 11

Idiopathic

Question 12

Failure of the iris to close during fetal development is called what?

Answer 12

coloboma

Question 13

Coloboma is what shaped iris?

Answer 13

Keyhole-shaped

Question 14

An irregular shaped pupil due to an adhesion.

Answer 14

Synechia

Question 15

Synechia adheres what?

Answer 15

Part of the iris to the cornea in front of it or the lens behind it.

Question 16

Synechia is secondary to what?

Answer 16

Trauma, surgery, cataracts, glaucoma, iritis, or other eye infections.

Question 17

Synechia can lead to what?

Answer 17

Rapidly acute glaucoma and potential blindness in that eye.

Question 18

Synechia can lead to what?

Answer 18

Rapidly acute glaucoma and potential blindness in that eye.

Question 19

The conditions of pupil size and function ________ except for coloboma and Argyll Robertson pupil?

Answer 19

unilateral

Question 20

What two conditions of pupil size and function are NOT unilateral?

Answer 20

Coloboma and Argyll Robertson pupil

Question 21

This is pupil inequality

Answer 21

Physiologic (congenital) anisocoria

Question 22

Physiologic anisocoria is pupil inequality of what size?

Question 23

The damage to the cervical sympathetic trunk in Horner’s syndrome is from what?

Answer 23

mediastinal tumors

bronchogenic or metastatic cancer

Question 24

Inequality of pupil size.

Answer 24

Anisocoria

Question 25

What can cause anisocoria?

Answer 25

Congenital, associated with head trauma or diseases of the nervous system.

Question 26

A fixed, dilated pupil with poor response to the papillary reflexes.

Answer 26

Adie's tonic pupil

Question 27

Most cases of Adie's' tonic pupil are what?

Answer 27

Idiopathic

Question 28

Failure of the iris to close during fetal development is called what?

Answer 28

coloboma

Question 29

Coloboma is what shaped iris?

Answer 29

Keyhole-shaped

Question 30

An irregular shaped pupil due to an adhesion.

Answer 30

Synechia

Question 31

Synechia adheres what?

Answer 31

Part of the iris to the cornea in front of it or the lens behind it.

Question 32

Synechia is secondary to what?

Answer 32

Trauma, surgery, cataracts, glaucoma, iritis, or other eye infections.

Question 33

Synechia can block what?

Answer 33

The flow of aqueous fluid

Question 34

Synechia can lead to what?

Answer 34

Rapidly acute glaucoma and potential blindness in that eye.

Question 35

What can cause Argyll Robertson pupil?

Answer 35

CNS defect resulting from syphilis

Question 36

Argyll Robertson pupil has a decrease or no response to what? But DOES respond to what?

Answer 36

Light reflexes | accommodation

Question 37

This condition results in mitosis and mild eye ptosis?

Answer 37

Horner syndrome

Question 38

Horner syndrome is due to what?

Answer 38

Interruption of sympathetic nerve supply to the eye.

Question 39

Horner syndrome is often associated with damage to what?

Answer 39

Cervical sympathetic trunk.

Question 40

The damage to the cervical sympathetic trunk in Horner's syndrome is from what?

Answer 40

mediastinal tumors | bronchogenic or metastatic cancer

Question 41

Acute glaucoma called

Answer 41

Narrow angle

Question 42

What people are prone to acute glaucoma?

Answer 42

People with a shallow anterior chamber

Question 43

What becomes blocked in acute glaucoma?

Answer 43

Canal of Schlemm

Question 44

What happens in acute glaucoma?

Answer 44

Canal of Schlemm is blocked and aqueous fluid builds up rapidly in the eye.

Question 45

What signs and symptoms are associated with acute glaucoma?

Answer 45

Severe eye pain, blurred vision, report of seeing colored lights around bright objects, corneal edema, conjunctiva and perilimbal injection and a fixed dilated pupil.

Question 46

Unless the pressure can be reduced in acute glaucoma it will cause blindness in how long?

Answer 46

2-5 days

Question 47

What is the most common form of glaucoma?

Answer 47

chronic

Question 48

How to optometrist and ophthalmologist routinely assess people at risk of glaucoma?

Answer 48

"puff test" tonometry perimetry

Question 49

How can you distinguish btw benign red eye of conjunctivitis from red eye due to corneal abrasions, iritis, or acute glaucoma?

Answer 49

Conjunctivitis - blood vessels dilate from periphery (doesn't touch limbus), vision is clear, burning/itching is mild. Both eyes involved simultaneously. Others - blood vessel dilate from limbus --> periphery, conjunctiva and perilimbal injection (circumcorneal/ culinary), reported injury to eye, vision is infected, constricted pupil, ocular pain is a lot.

Question 50

What are warnings signs/symptoms of acute glaucoma?

Answer 50

Sudden, unexpected, escalating eye pain and/or altered vision in one eye, corneal edema, perilimbal and conjunctiva injection.