Common questions in ophthalmology viva
          Questions are usually given as:
              * management questions
                      for eg. how do you manage a patient who has a flat anterior chamber one day  post-operative
             
              * centre on
               picture
              fluorescent angiography
              Hess's chart
              surgical instruments
              CAT or MRI scan
               
          Favourite questions:
           
          • Trauma
                • intraocular foreign body
                perforating injury
                chemical burnt
           
          • Non-traumatic ocular emergency
                • acute glaucoma
                sudden visual loss
                painful red eye
                third nerve palsy
                 
          • Lids
                • ptosis
                differential diagnosis of skin lesions
                 
          • Anterior segment
                • chronic conjunctivitis
                infective keratitis
                recurrent erosion syndrome
                keratoconus
                 
          • Uveitis
                • anterior uveitis and its investigation
                AIDS and ocular manifestation
                posterior uveitis and its investigation
                 
          • Glaucoma
                • visual field defect with visual field
                use of laser in glaucoma
                side effects of anti-glaucoma medication
                use of adjunctive therapy: 5-FU and mitomycin
                 
          • Retinal detachment
                • rheugmatogenous
                non-rheugmatogenous
                 
          • Cataract
                • post-operative endophthalmitis
                 
          • Strabismus
                • investigation of a child with esotropia
                thyroid eye diseases
                 
          • Retina
                • retinitis pigmentosa
                age-related macular oedema
                diabetic mellitus
                branch and central retinal vein occlusion
                investigation of retinal artery occlusion and carotid artery disease
                 
          • Tumours
                • retinoblastoma
                choroidal melanoma
                 
          • Paediatric
                • neonatal conjunctivitis
                management of epiphora
                congenital cataract
                causes of leukocoria
                investigation of a child who cannot see
           
          Some examiners may show you special investigations and the following being the commonest:
           
          • Fluorescent angiography
           
                ischaemic retinopathy from diabetes
                focal leakage in diabetic maculopathy
                neovascularization
                macular oedema
                subretinal neovascular membrane
                retinal pigment epithelium tear or detachment
                cystoid macular oedema
                central serous retinopathy
                   
          • Hess chart
                • third nerve, sixth and fourth nerve palsy
                Duane's syndrome and Brown's syndrome
                Blow-out fracture and thyroid eye disease
                   
          • Corneal topography
          • Electrophysiology such as VEP, ERG or EOG
          • CAT and MRI scans of brains and orbits

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          • Surgical questions
              • lid surgery
              DCR
              corneal graft (especially rejection)
              glaucoma (malignant glaucoma, flat anterior chamber)
              cataract (CMO, endophthalmitis, astigmatism)
              retinal detachment
              squint operation
              vitrectomy
              enucleation vs evisceration
               
               
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