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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 ... uveitis => Blindness
Orbital Cellulitis: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Definitions:
a. Chemosis: Edema of the bulbar conjunctiva
b. Panopthalmitis: inflammation of all
inflammation of the interior ... periorbital tissue (anterior ... - Impinges on ocular ... Impaired extra-ocular ... Endopthalmitis -> Blindness
Neuro-OphthaImoIogy - Visual Field Defects - Localization Map
 - Optic Nerve Lesion (Monocular vision loss)
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Parietal Lobe Lesion (Inferior ... VisualFieldDefects #Blindness ... NeuroOphthaImoIogy #Neurology ... #Differential #
Acute Closed Angle Glaucoma: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
OPHTHALMIC EMERGENCY: Early detection is essential, but most patients
frequent cause of blindness ... thus have shallow anterior ... -> crowding of ocular ... the posterior to anterior ... nerve damage & blindness
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 ... Classification #Differential
Selected Differential Diagnosis of Eye Pain: Key Features and Management Options

Conjunctiva

 - Bacterial conjunctivitis

 - Viral
Selected Differential ... Viral keratitis Anterior ... glaucoma Uvea - Anterior ... Ophthalmology #Eye #Ocular ... #Pain #Differential
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
Syndrome, Cortical Blindness ... Confabulation #differential ... diagnosis #causes #neurology
Lower Extremity Nerve Pathologies 

 • Obturator
 • Femoral
 • Common Peroneal
 • Tibial
 • Superior
Superior Gluteal • Inferior ... #Pathologies #differential ... #innervation #neurology
Visual Field Pathways and Deficits
1 Total blindness of right eye due to complete lesion of right
Deficits 1 Total blindness ... Left homonymous inferior ... Diagnosis #lesions #differential
Blurry vision in a patient with HIV/AIDS
Anterior Segment:
 • Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
 • Keratitis (HSV, Staph,
with HIV/AIDS Anterior ... retinitis* • Ocular ... InfectiousDiseases #Anterior ... #Posterior #Differential