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Onchocerciasis “River Blindness”: Pathogenesis and Ocular Manifestations
Vectorial Transmission
-> Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic helminth, matures in to
Onchocerciasis “River Blindness ... Pathogenesis and Ocular ... Chorioretinitis • Anterior ... RiverBlindness #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Eyeball Anatomy - Extraocular Muscles
 - Superior Oblique
 - Inferior Oblique
 - Superior Rectus
 - Inferior
Eyeball Anatomy ... Superior Oblique - Inferior ... rev.med #Eyeball #Anatomy ... Extraocular #Muscles #Ocular ... #ophthalmology
Neuro-OphthaImoIogy - Visual Field Defects - Localization Map
 - Optic Nerve Lesion (Monocular vision loss)
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Neuro-OphthaImoIogy ... Parietal Lobe Lesion (Inferior ... VisualFieldDefects #Blindness ... NeuroOphthaImoIogy #Neurology ... Differential #Diagnosis #Anatomy
Orbital Cellulitis: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Definitions:
a. Chemosis: Edema of the bulbar conjunctiva
b. Panopthalmitis: inflammation of all
- Impinges on ocular ... Impaired extra-ocular ... Endopthalmitis -> Blindness ... Orbital #Cellulitis #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Acute Closed Angle Glaucoma: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
OPHTHALMIC EMERGENCY: Early detection is essential, but most patients
thus have shallow anterior ... chambers Anatomic ... -> crowding of ocular ... ClosedAngle #Glaucoma #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Trachoma: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 • Environmental Factors -> Bacterial infection is encouraged by poor hygiene
from nasal or ocular ... • Dry eye => Blindness ... Trachoma #Chlamydia #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Xeropthalmia: Pathogenesis and Ocular Manifestations

Decr Visual pigment -> Keratinization, thickening & non-wetting of the conjunctiva
Pathogenesis and Ocular ... Nyctalopia (night blindness ... #Xeropthalmia #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Uveitis - Definition, Causes and SUN Classification

Inflammation of the iris, ciliary body, vitreous, retina and/or choroid
Incidence
of preventable blindness ... , linked to macular ... Classification: Anterior ... Differential #Diagnosis #Ophthalmology
Retinitis Pigmentosa: Pathogenesis and Ocular Manifestations
 • Inherited mutation of rhodopsin gene -> Mode of inheritance
Pathogenesis and Ocular ... formation • Macular ... edema => Blindness ... RetinitisPigmentosa #pathophysiology ... #ophthalmology
Swirling flow of aqueous humor
Aqueous humor flows from the posterior chamber of the eye to the
the eye to the anterior ... Within the anterior ... aqueous #humor #ophthalmology ... #pathophysiology ... #Anatomy #flow