Pediatric Ophthalmology Flashcards
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What is the classic triad for congenital glaucoma and the modality of imaging and exam findings to monitor this condition?
Congenital glaucoma triad
• Blepharospasm
• Photophobia
• Epiphora
Imaging and exam findings to monitor the disease
• A scan
• Reversible cupping is seen as the disease process is
treated appropriately
What is a “phoria”?
• Latent deviation that is controlled by fusional
mechanism so eyes remain aligned under binocular
conditions
• Apparent when fusional control is lost
What is a “tropia”?
• Manifest deviation that cannot be controlled by
fusional mechanism
• Eyes are misaligned even under binocular conditions
What are the different ways of measuring visual acuity in a preverbal child?
• Blink to light
• Fix and follow
• Central steady maintained
• Teller card
• VEP
• OKN
What is the origin of the superior rectus?
Annulus of Zinn at orbital apex
What is the functional origin of the superior oblique?
Trochlea
What is cerebral visual impairment?
● Retrogeniculate visual impairment
● Visual deficits resulting in pathology posterior to lateral
geniculate nucleus
● Common causes
○ Periventricular leukomalacia (most common)
○ Intracranial hemorrhage
○ Perinatal hypoxia
○ Intrauterine infection
○ Structural abnormalities
○ Seizures
○ Hydrocephalus
○ Trauma
○ Meningitis
○ Encephalitis
● Exam findings
○ Variable level of visual inattentiveness
○ Subtle optic nerve cupping (similar to glaucomatous
cupping) in preterm infants
● Work up: neuroimaging
What are the findings in unilateral and bilateral superior oblique (SO) palsy?
Unilateral SO palsy
• Little if any V pattern
• Less than 10 degrees of extorsion in downgaze
• Head tilt toward should opposite side of weakness
• Subjective incyclodiplopia is uncommon unless palsy is
severe
Bilateral SO palsy
• V pattern
• Extorsion is 10 degrees or more in downgaze; >20
degrees is highly suggestive of bilateral involvement
• Chin down position
• Subjective incyclodiplopia is common in acquired
cases
What is an important risk when simultaneous surgery on three or more rectus muscles occurs and its clinical presentation?
● Anterior segment ischemia occurs because majority of
blood supply to anterior segment derives from
anterior ciliary arteries which travel in the 4 rectus
muscles
● Clinical findings:
○ Cell and flare (earliest sign)
○ Corneal edema
○ Pupil irregularity
What is the pathophysiology of midface hypoplasia?
Cranial malformation due to premature closure of skull
base suture
What is hypertelorism?
Excessive distance between medial orbital walls
What is telecanthus?
Greater than normal distance between medial canthus
What is craniosynostosis?
Premature closure of one or more cranial sutures during
embryonic period or early childhood
What is plagiocephaly?
● Most common craniosynostosis
● Means “oblique head”
● Cause: external compressive forces, occurring
prenatally or during infancy
● Types
○ Deformational plagiocephaly → due to
intrauterine constraint (oligohydramnios),
ipsilateral occipital flattening
○ Unilateral coronal suture synostosis → also due
to intrauterine constraint. Synostotic side →
forehead and supraorbital rim are depressed,
interpalpebral fissure wider, orbit is often
higher than nonsynostotic side
What is brachycephaly?
• Bilateral closure of coronal sutures
• Wide and flat forehead
What is scaphocephaly?
• Premature closure of sagittal suture
• Long head
Which cycloplegic eye drop can cause the most allergic or hypersensitivity reactions?
• Atropine
• Systemic side effects: fever, dry mouth, flushing,
tachycardia, urinary retention, delirium, nausea,
dizziness
What is the panum’s area of single binocular vision?
• A visual system that can combine slightly disparate
points within a limited area surrounding the
horopter
• Objects in this space on disparate retinal points but
are physiologically seen single
• Objects outside Panum’s area fall on widely
disparate retinal points and are seen as lying in 2
visual directions, results in physiologic diplopia
What is Brown syndrome?
• Positive forced duction (restriction from trochlea
superior oblique complex)
• V pattern
• None or minimal superior oblique muscle overaction
• No torsion
• Negative head tilt test
• Deficient elevation in adduction (due to various
abnormalities of tendon trochlea complex)
What are the clinical findings in inferior oblique muscle palsy?
• Intorsion of hypotrophic eye (due to superior
oblique overaction)
• Positive head tilt test
• Deficient elevation in adduction
What are primary iris stromal cysts?
• Often diagnosed in infancy
• Due to sequestration of epithelium during
embryologic development
• Epithelium lined stromal cysts containing goblet
cells
• If enlarged → associated with blockage of visual
axis, corneal decompensation, glaucoma, iritis due
to leakage of cysts of contents
• Treatment: surgical excision
Polychromatic lenticular deposits (“Christmas tree” cataract) is seen in which condition?
Myotonic dystrophy
What is Myotonic dystrophy and its findings?
• Inability to relax muscles when stimulated
• Ptosis
• CPEO
• Hypotony due to ciliary body detachments
• Peripheral pigmentary retinopathy cardiac
conduction abnormalities
• Christmas tree cataracts
• Sluggish pupils
• EMG (diagnostic) myotonic discharges
•”hatchet face” wasting of temporalis and master
muscle, frontal balding, low intelligence
What is the most common location of a limbal dermoid?
• Inferotemporal limbus
• Associated with Goldenhar syndrome
(oculoauriculovertebral syndrome) = hemifacial
microsomia, ear deformities, upper eyelid
colobomas, vertebral anomalies

