SEA (SEE), SAND, and SUN
All Shook Up
German
Mneumonics fun
Three times the fun: Eye triads
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Yellow-white subepithelial lesion of abnormal collagen at the medial or temporal limbus due to UV exposure
What is a pinguecula?
100
Bright red blood under the conjunctiva associated with trauma, sneezing, coughing, or strain (weight lifting). Watch aspirin and anticoagulant use.
What is Subconjunctival hemorrhage?
100
What are small refractile lesions in the macula taken from the German word for geode?
What are drusen?
100
Thyroid Eye Disease mneumonic
What is No SPECS? No signs, Signs, Proptosis, EOM/Diplopia, Cornea, and Sight Loss.
100
What condition has ptosis, miosis, and anhydrosis
What is Horner's Syndrome?
200
Usually found in Oysters this ocular sign is epithelial cell proliferation happens in a secondary cataract.
What are Elschnig Pearls?
200
Gray-white discoloration of the macula due to photoreceptor outer segment disruption following blunt eye trauma.
What is Berlin's Edema?
200
Deposits of melanin on the corneal endothelium in a central vertical distribution.
What is Kruckenberg's Spindle?
200
What is the pneumonic to remember Syndromes with Keratoconus?
What is TDOME? Turner's, Downs, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Marfan's, and Ehlers Dahlos.
200
What retinal condition includes peripapillary atrophy, “punched-out” chorioretinal lesions and disciform macular scarring in young and middle-aged adults?
What is Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis (POHS)?
300
In Stage 3 of this condition sea-fan peripheral neovascularization forms growing in a circumferential pattern and a predilection for the superotemporal quadrant
What is Sickle Cell Retinopathy?
300
Retinal Hemorrhages in 85% of cases, associated with brain lesions and fractures of the ribs. Cerebral death in 20-30% of cases. A Form of Abusive Head Trauma.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
300
Appears as dot like anterior subcapsular lens opacities due to lens epithelial cell ischemia and necrosis from high IOP.
What is Glaukomflecken?
300
What is the pneumonic for medications causing Vortex/Whorl Keratopathy?
What is CHIA-T? Chloroquine/Chlorpromazine, Hydroxychlorquine, Indomethacin, Amiodarone, and Tamoxifen?
300
IOL related inflammation with the classic triad of Uveitis, Glaucoma, and Hyphema.
What is UGH Syndrome?
400
Retinal disease causing decreased vision in young adulthood with an atrophic beaten-bronze appearance or yellow fleck-like deposits at the level of the RPE usually in a pisciform (fish-tail) configuration.
What is Stargardt Disease?
400
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What is Purtscher's Retinopathy?
400
Nodular corneal degeneration with several white elevated nummular opacities causing irregular astigmatism more common in females.
What is Salzmann's Nodular Degeneration?
400
What is the pneumonic for Non-Granulomatous Uveitis causes?
What is UCRAP? Ulcerative Colitis, Crone's Reactive Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis?
400
Uveitis causing condition has the classic triad of arthritis, urethritis and conjunctivitis.
What is Reiter's Syndrome?
500
Micro or Macrostriae of the flap after LASIK surgery, which may need repositioning.
What is Sands of Sahara?
500
Areas of choroidal and retinal rupture leaving bare sclera with history of high velocity (BB, bullet, or shrapnel) passing through orbit without contacting globe causing retinal shock waves.
What is Chorioretinitis Sclopeteria?
500
Choroidal cavernous hemangioma, facial nevus flammeus - port-wine stain, unilateral glaucoma
What is Sturge-Weber Syndrome?
500
What is the mneumonic for causes of angioid streaks?
What is PEPSI? Paget's, Ehlers Danlos, Pseudoxanthoma elasticum, sickle cell, and idiopathic?
500
Triad of external ophthalmoplegia, pigmentary retinopathy and cardiac conduction block during the first or second decade of life.
What is Kearns-Sayre Syndrome?