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Algorithm for the Evaluation of the Red and Painful Eye
1. External
2. Lids and Lashes
3. Conjunctiva and
Cornea 5. ... twitter.com/thame #RedEye ... #Painful #Algorithm ... #Diagnosis #Differential ... #Anatomy #Ophthalmology
Unilateral Acute Vision Loss - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Painful - Cornea
 • Keratopathy
Painful - No Abnormalities of
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Painful - Cornea ... Nerve • Temporal Arteritis ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes #Ophthalmology
Atraumatic Red Eye - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Lids / Orbit / Lacrimal System:
 • Blepharitis
 • Stye
Diagnosis Algorithm ... #Atraumatic #RedEye ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes #Ophthalmology
Differential Diagnosis for Vision Loss
Unilateral, Painful Vision Loss:
 • Corneal abrasion, Acute angle-closure glaucoma, Inflammation-iritis, uveitis,
Differential Diagnosis ... Vision Loss: • Corneal ... thrombosis, Temporal arteritis ... #diagnosis #causes ... #ophthalmology
Traumatic Red Eye - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Surface Injury:
 • Corneal Abrasion
 • Ultraviolet Keratitis
 • Chemical
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Surface Injury: • Corneal ... #Traumatic #RedEye ... Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes #Ophthalmology
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
 •
Diagnosis Algorithm ... papilledema • Horner ... ) • Temporal arteritis ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #neurology #PHANTOMS
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
aphthous ulcerations (painful ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Behcet disease) Differential ... Diagnosis: • Genital ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology
Photophobia and Headache - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Why?
• The coexistence of photophobia and headache suggests the potential
and Headache - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... hypothalamus, and visual cortex ... #diagnosis #ophthalmology ... #Neurology
Diplopia - Double Vision - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Clinical Pearls:
 • Diplopia is almost always binocular.
 •
Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Neurologic ... Functional • Corneal ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes #Ophthalmology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... Diagnosis = clinical ... very remarkable w/differential ... 95% of cases (Cornelia ... required +/- prompt ophthalmology