Behcet's syndrome: diagnostic 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.
Cataracts: causes
CATARAct:
- Congenital
- Aging
- Toxicity (steroids, etc)
- Accidents
- Radiation
- Abnormal metabolism (diabetes mellitus, Wilson's)
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, dacryoadenitis: apparatus 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 muscles: movements
"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 syndrome: components
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
Orbit: bones of medial wall
"My Little 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