OPHTHALMOLOGY MNEMONICS

 Behcet's syndromediagnostic criteria

PROSE:

  • Pathergy test (i/d saline injection)
  • Recurrent genital ulceration
  • Oral ulceration (recurrent)
  • Skin lesions
  • Eye lesions

 *Oral ulceration is central criteria, plus any 2 others.

Cataractscauses

CATARAct:

  • Congenital
  • Aging
  • Toxicity (steroids, etc)
  • Accidents
  • Radiation
  • Abnormal metabolism (diabetes mellitus, Wilson's)
Alternatively;

ABCDE:

  • Aging
  • Bang: trauma, other injuries (eg infrared)
  • Congenital
  • Diabetes and other metabolic disturbances (eg steroids)
  • Eye diseases: glaucoma, uveitis

Choroidal neovascular membrane

HAMMAR:

  • Histoplasmosis
  • ARMD
  • Multifocal Choroiditis
  • Myopia
  • Angiod
  • Rupture of the choroid

Corneal stromal dystrophies

"Marilyn Monroe Gets High in LA":

  • Macular: Mucopolysaccharide
  • Granular: Hyaline
  • Lattice: Amyloid

Dacryocystitis, dacryoadenitisapparatus affected

  • Dacryocystitis, dacryadenitis:

  *Cry, so affects lacrimal gland.

  *Infection and inflammation, respectively.

Diplopia (uniocular): causes

ABCD:

  • Astigmatism
  • Behavioral: psychogenic
  • Cataract
  • Dislocated lens

Extraocular muscles cranial nerve innervation

"LR6 SO4 AO3":

  • Lateral Rectus is 6th
  • Superior Oblique is 4th
  • All Others 3rd cranial nerve

Extraocular musclesmovements

"ObliqLiques cause lateral rotation of eyeball":

  *Obliques cause lateral, all other rectii are medial rotators of the eyeball.

  • Action of the obliques is opposite to their names.
  • Action of the rectii is rightly fitting to their names.
  • Both superiors cause intorsion and both inferiors cause extorsion.

Eye rotation by oblique muscles

"I Love S&M":

  • Inferior oblique: Lateral eye rotation.
  • Superior oblique: Medial eye rotation

Horner's syndromecomponents

SAMPLE:

  • Sympathetic chain injury
  • Anhidrosis
  • Miosis
  • Ptosis
  • Loss of ciliospinal reflex
  • Enophthalmos

 Alternatively;

PAM:

  • Ptosis
  • Anhydrosis
  • Miosis

Optic atrophy: causes

ICING:

  • Ischaemia
  • Compressed nerve
  • Intracranial pressure [raised]
  • Neuritis history
  • Glaucoma

Orbitbones of medial wall

"MLittle Eye Sits in the orbit":

  • Maxilla (frontal process)
  • Lacrimal
  • Ethmoid
  • Sphenoid (body)

Periorbital cellulitis: etiology

SIGHT:

  • Sinusitis
  • Insect Bite
  • Globular/ Glandular Spread
  • Heme Spread
  • Trauma

Red eye: causes

GO SUCK:

  • Glaucoma
  • Orbital disease
  • Scleritis
  • Uveitis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Keratitis

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