| Topics: |
Common questions:
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| Diabetic
retinopathy |
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What are the consequences of hyperglycaemia on blood vessels?
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How can diabetes mellitus affect the eye?
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Where are the location of flame-haemorrhage, dot-and-blot
haemorrhages, cotton wool spots?
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What are the effect of hypertension, renal diseases and carotid
artery diseases on diabetic retinopathy?
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The effect of glaucoma, optic atrophy and high myopia on
proliferative
diabetic retinopathy?
(Note: very often a clinical ophthalmologist is present
and you are
likely to be asked about the definition of clinically
signficant macular
oedema and the effect of diabetic control on diabetic
retinopathy.)
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| Hypertensive retinopathy |
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What are the effects of hypertension on the blood vessels?
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What are the histological features of malignant hypertension?
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What are the effects of hypertension on posterior segment?
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| Central retinal artery occlusion |
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What are the causes of retinal artery occlusion and what
laboratory tests would you perform? (This usually lead
to
a discussion of giant cell arteritis)
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What is the incidence of cilioretinal artery?
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How long does it take for the retinal oedema to disappear?
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The differences between central retinal artery occlusion
and ophthalmic artery occlusion.
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| Central retinal vein occlusion |
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What are the causes of central retinal vein occlusion and
what investigations would you perform? What blood tests would you perform
if the patient is 40 years of age? (This usually leads to a discussion
of blood dyscrasia and clotting factor abnormalities such as protein C
and S, in women SLE and antithrombophilic factor is often discussed)
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| Age-related macular degeneration |
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What is drusen? Is it similar to optic disc drusen?
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How does subretinal neovascular membrane develop?
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| Sympathetic
ophthalmia |
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What are the risk factors for sympathetic ophthalmia?
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What histological features are present in the post segment?
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| Siderosis bulbi |
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What is siderosis bulbi?
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What are the effects of retained intraocular iron foreign
body?
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| Lens and glaucoma |
What is phacolytic glaucoma and what is phacoantigenic glaucoma?
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