EBO Exam Preparation Course Guide
EBO Exam Preparation Course Guide
EXAMEN EBO
AMIR-ALCON
Dra. Silvia Pérez Trigo, M.D. Ph.D. FEBO.
Madrid, febrero 2018
LOGISTICS FOR EXAMINATION
• Fly the morning before the exam
• Accommodation close to the Congress
Palace
• Arrive early to take the accreditation
the first day
• Carry a ruler and a pencil for the
answer sheet
STRUCTURE OF THE EXAM
WRITTEN PART (40%)
• MCQ-paper
Contains 52 questions
• T (True)
• F (False)
• D (Don’t know)
+1 (only) the correct answer is marked
0 (only) the option D (Don’t know) is marked
–0,5 (only) the incorrect answer is marked OR multiple options have been marked (T and F) (T and D) (F and D) (T, F and D)
STRUCTURE OF THE EXAM
ORAL PART (60%)
• Four separate vivas of 15 min:
The viva voce panels are:
• Optics, Refraction, Strabismus, Pediatric ophthalmology and Neuro-ophthalmology
• Cornea, External Diseases, Orbit and Ocular Adnexa
• Glaucoma, Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Posterior Segment, Ocular Inflammation and Uveitis
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Webs:
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Neuro-ophthalmology
OPTIC NERVE
• ANATOMY:
• 1.2 million nerve fibers
• Diameter: 1.5 mm 3.5 mm
• Length: 45-50 mm
Intraocular: 1 mm
Intraorbital: 25-30 mm
Intracanicular: 9 mm
Intracranial 10-15 mm
• Blood supply: Zinn Haller ring
• Surface fiber layer: central retinal artery
• Prelaminar región short post ciliary arteries
• Lamina cribosa region
• Retrolaminar: both
OPTIC NERVE
PAPILEDEMA IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANEAL HYPERTENSION
Pseudotumor cerebri
• ♀ 33 y
• Intracraneal pressure • Papilledema findings + headache, nausea, vomiting
• Loss spontaneous venous pulsations • Tinnitus (pulsatile intracraneal noises)
• Visual obscurations (postural changes) • Retrobulbar pain
• Blind spot • VF defect (blind spot, constriction, arcuate)
• Diplopia CN 6 palsy • Associations: obesity, endocrine disorders, tetracycline,
steroids, female hormones…
• Acute normal: vision, colors, pupils • Diagnosis:
• Diagnosis: • MRI (+ contrast) + Magnetic resonance venography
• CSF pressure + normal composition
• Blood pressure
• Serial Visual fields
• Brain CT/MRI
• Treatment:
• Lumbar puncture
• Weight loss, Acetazolamide, serial lumbar punctures,
lumbar-peritoneal shunt
OPTIC NERVE
OPTIC NEURITIS:
• Most common optic neuropathy < 45y • Differential diagnosis:
Idiopathic
• Most frequent in ♀ Multiple Sclerosis
• VF defects: 50% diffuse, 20% CENTRAL Sarcoidosis
Lyme Disease
• Unilateral vision loss + RAPD + Pain Devic’s síndrome
movements + vision color/contrast sensibility (bilateral optic neuritis + transverse mielitis)
• Pulfrich phenomenon: motion of pendulum appears
elliptical • Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis:
• NOT INITIAL oral steroids
• Uhthoff’s sympton: worsening of symtomps with • IV steroids
heat/exercise
• Interferon beta 1 alpha
• Phosphenes • Fingolimod (macular edema)
• Auditory clicks
OPTIC NERVE
ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY (AION)
• Infarction just posterior lamina cribosa (posterior ciliary
arteries)
• Altitudinal/arcuate VF defects
• Optic disc edema (ANT)
• Contralateral disc crowded
• Pesudo Foster-Kennedy syndrome:
edema+ contralateral atrophy
ARTERITIC (AAION)
NONARTERITIC (NAION)
• Inflamatory vasculopathy, Associated symtoms
• >55 y ♀ (amaurosis fugax/diplopia) • No associated symtoms
• 15-30 y
• Tobacco or alcohol can trigger
• Rapid vision loss (days ≤ 20/200) + disc edema+
peripapillary telangiectatic vessels (FA not leak)
• Cardiac conduction abnormalities
• No treatment
OPTIC NERVE TUMORS
ON MENINGIOMA
NEURILEMMOMA
ON GLIOMA
• Children: Low grade astrocytoma
(SCHWANNOMA)
• No malignant
Hamartoma
• ♀ • NF 1
NF 1
• NF 1 • Compression, perineural spread
CT/MRI: fusiform mass
• Vision loss • Superior orbit
Treatment: observation/excision
• Optociliary shunt vessels • Pathology: Antoni A /Antoni B cells
• Adults: malignant ON glioma
• Optic nerve atrophy • CT scan: fusiform mass
(glioblastoma multiforme)
• Pathology: Psammoma bodies • Treatment: excision
calcification
• CT/MRI: Railroad track sign
CHIASM
• 55% cross (nasal fibers)
• Macular fibers: posterior
• Knee of Von Villebrand: junctional scotoma
(Inferonasal retina fibers, Meningioma)
• Bloody supply: ICA, anterior cerebral artery
• Heteronymous VF (BITEMPORAL) defects
Möebius syndrome
CN6 and CN7 palsies
Esotropia with ABDuction
limitation
PUPILS
-Horner’s Level:
• Postganglionic:
Hydroxyamphetamine test:
-Third order neuron:
(releases NE from nerve terminal, 3rd neuron)
Superior cervical ganglion to iris dilator
- Pupil DILATES
- Pupil NOT dilates
PUPILS
ADIE’S TONIC PUPIL
• Postganglionic parasympathetic pupillomotor damage
• ♀ 20-40 y
• Unilateral
• Midriasis vermiform movements miosis
• Light-near dissociation
• Diagnosis: Pilocarpine 0,125% test
ARGYLL-ROBERTSON PUPIL
• Bilateral miosis
• Terciary syphilis
• Light-near dissociation
Pupils
OCULAR MUSCLE DISORDERS not altered
Embryonic plate > Optic sulci > Optic pit (23d) >Optic vesicle (25d) > Optic cup
• Embryonic fissure: 33rd day pressurization (6th week) - Choroid (stroma, vessels)
• Coloboma INFERONASAL (≠ eyelid coloboma not related) - Cornea (stroma, endothelium)
- Trabeculum
Neural crest - Stroma iris
- Ciliary body (stroma, muscles)
- Retina (sensory, RPE) - Sclera
- Iris (sphincter, dilator) - Cartilage/ bone orbit
Ectoderm Neural ectoderm - Ciliary body (epithelium) - Connective tissue extraocular muscles
- Optic nerve
- Sympathetic ganglion
- Lateral geniculate body
- Lens
- Extraocular muscles Surface ectoderm - Epithelium cornea/conjunctiva
Mesoderm - Sclera (small area temporal) - Lacrimal gland
- Vascular endothelium - Nasolacrimal system
- Schlemm’s canal
ORBITAL LESIONS
BENIGN LESIONS
• DERMOID CYST:
• Choristoma (dermal elements) tissue not normally found that site
• Most common orbital mass in childhood
• SUPEROTEMPORAL
• No malignant potential
• CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA:
• Most common benign tumor in orbit in children
• First weeks of life, enlarge first 6-12 months, spontaneous resolution
• SUPERONASAL, ♀ > ♂
• Kasabach-Merrit syndrome: coagulopathy, platelet trapping
• Treatment: β-blockers IV
• LYMPHANGIOMA:
• SUPERONASAL
• Increasing with upper respiratory infection
• May hemorrhage (chocolate cyst)
• VARIX:
• SUPERONASAL
• Valsalva, crying,…
• Phlebolith
ORBITAL LESIONS Metastasis in children: ORBIT
( ≠ Adults: uvea)
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS
• Peter’s anomaly:
• Corneal leukoma + iris adhesions + cataract
ANIRIDIA
Neural Ectoderm disturbance
• Bilateral
• Sporadic/ hereditary: gen PAX6
• Types:
• AN1: 85%, AD, eye
• AN2: sporadic, WILMS’S TUMOR (nephroblastoma) Abdominal ECO
• AN3: AR
• Hipoplasia foveal/optic nerve
• Nystagmus
• Cataracts, glaucoma, pannus, alteration of meibomian glands
CONGENITAL CATARACTS
UNILATERAL BILATERAL
• Not metabolic/genetic • AD
• Metabolic workup
• Testing is not needed: • TORCH
trauma/TORCH (Toxo, others, Rubeolla, CMV, HSV) • GALACTOSEMIA:
• PHPV •
•
AR, galactose-1-P-uridil transferase
Galactisol
• Lenticonus: •
•
Dx: urine reducting substances
Oil-droplet cataract (resersible)
Anterior: Alport’s Sd. • FABRY’S DISEASE:
Nephritis • α galactosidase A deficiency
• Cornea verticillata
Deafness • Spoke-like cataract
• Tumors… • Cardiovascular (infarction), skin pain, renal, etc
• LOWE’S SD:
• X-linked
Congenital cataract + glaucoma • Defect of amino acids metabolism
are very rare • Glaucoma
• Dx: urinalysis amino acids
• ALPORT’S SD
CHILDHOOD GLAUCOMA
PRIMARY CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA
COAT’S DISEASE
• Non heredirary
• Unilateral, ♂ (5-10 y, Young adulthood)
• Leukocoria
• Strabismus
• Telangiectatic blood vessels leak lipids/ yellow subretinal lesions
• No calcifications ( ≠ retinoblastoma)
• Treatment: cryo/laser
RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURY
International Classification of ROP
• Risk factors/screening (4-8 weeks of life) • Zones (centered on optic disc)
≤ 1500 kg • Stages
< 32 gestation weeks • 1. demarcation line
Oxygen > 72h • 2. Ridge
Premature unstable clinical course • 3. Ridge with tufts (fibrovasc prolif)
• 80-90% spontaneosly regress, not treatment • 4. Subtotal retinal detachment
(A extrafoveal/ B foveal)
• 5. Total RD
RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURY
• PLUS disease (tendency to progression)
Engorged tortuous vessels + vitreous haze + iris vascular congestion
• Threshold disease Treatment < 48 h
Zone 1 + PLUS
Zone 1 + Stage 3 (fibrovasc)
Zone 2 + Stage 2-3 + PLUS
• Prethreshold disease Review 1-2 weeks
• Zone 1 + Stage 2/3
• Zone 2 + Stage 3
• Treatment:
• Diode laser (better than green)
• Surgery: stages 4/5
• Bevacizumab (zone 1 + stage 3 + PLUS)
RETINAL DYSTROPHIES
FUNDUS FLAVIMACULATUS STARGARDT’S DISEASE BEST’S DISEASE
AD
AR
Second most common hereditary
Most common hereditary macular dystrophy
macular dystrophy
Adults 10-20 y 10 y
Firstly: Peripherial retina Bull’s eye maculopathy Macular RPE affected
Stages:
(central vision preserved) Decreased vision, nyctalopia Previtelliform
Vitelliform
Pisciform flecks Scrambled egg
Lipofuscin deposits in RPE Cyst stage
FA: Dark choroid, HiperF, Window defects Pseudohypopyon
Atrophy
ERG/EOG normal o subnormal
FA: blockage by egg yolk lesion
ERG normal /EOG abnormal
Good prognosis Bad prognosis Good vision
(except CNV)
RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA (RP)
• Progressive dystrophies
RP type 1 (rod-cone)
• sporadic > AR > AD > X-linked recessive (most severe)
• Vitreous cells
• Cataract
• CME not leak
• VF inferotemporal escotoma first
• ERG precede retinal changes
RP type 2 (cone-rod)
• Less pigment deposition (sine pigmento)
Variants: Gyrate atrophy
• LEBER’s congenital amaurosis (AR) • AR
• Nystagmus + oculodigital sign • Deficiency ornithine aminotransferase
• Usher’s syndrome (ornithine elevated, low lysine)
• Most common
• Progressive retinal degeneration
• Deafness
• Refsum’s disease • Starts peripherially
• Deficiency phytanic acid oxidase (acid accumulates in RPE)
• Abetalipoproteinemia (Bassen-Kornzweig Sd)
• Deficiency fat-solubles vitamins
• Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia
VITREORETINAL DISORDERS
Juvenile Retinoschisis Jansen Sd
• X-linked recessive • AD
• ♂ • Wagner Sd + retinal detachment
• Cleavage NFL (≠ senile) Stickler’s Sd
• Foveal/INFEROTEMPORAL • AD, myopia
• Appears like CME (not leak) • Progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy
• Hyperopia • Optically empty vitreous
• Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment + Vitreous • Lattice/ retinal detachment
hemorrhage
• ERG reduced b-wave + Normal EOG • Pierre Robin/marfanoid
Goldmann-Favre disease Albinism
• AR • AR (AD)
• Retinitis pigmentosa like + juvenile renitoschisis • Foveal hypoplasia + nystagmus
• Optically empty vitreous • Oculocutaneous
• Tyrosinase – no pigmentation (Chr 11)
Wagner Sd • Tyrosinase + some pigmentation (less severe) (Chr 15)
• AD, myopia • Potentially Lethal variants (AR)
• Optically empty vitreous • Chédiak-Higashi Sd (reticuloendothelial
dysfunction)
• NO retinal detachment • Hermansky-Pudlak Sd (abnormal platelets, Puerto
Rico)
• Lattice
• Cataract • Ocular
RETINOBLASTOMA (RB)
• Most common intraocular malignancy in children
• Chromosome 13q14 // gen RB1 (tumor suppressor protein)
• < 5 y (♀ = ♂)
• 60% sporadic (2 spontaneous mutations) Unilateral
• 40% Hereditary or with germinal mutation (<1 y, bilateral)
• Leukocoria > Strabismus > decreased vision
• Endophytic / exophytic
• Calcifications
• Neovascular glaucoma
• Trilateral retinoblastoma: bilateral RB + pinealoblastoma/parasellar neuroblastoma
• Pathology: ROSETTES
Homer-Wright (no lumen) • Treatment:
Flexner-Wintersteiner (lumen, early retinal differentiation)
• Chemotherapy + Brachytherapy
Fleurettes (highest differentiation)
• Very radiosensitive (≠ melanoma)
• Dx:
• Ophthalmoscopy • Small: cryo/laser/thermotherapy
• ECO: calcium • Enucleation: blind painfull eyes/ unilat
• MRI (Pineal gland / cerebral extension) • Bilateral: Systemic chemotherapy + Intraarterial/vitreous
• Metastatic workup
PHAKOMATOSES (neurocutaneous syndromes) The majority with AD inheritance
CN4 Superior The longest Passes Apex, above ABD 51° ADD
(26 mm) inferior to RS annulus of Inciclo Pure depressor
oblique Zinn Depress
CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY
• EXOPHORIA greater at NEAR
• Reduced near point of convergence
• Students: Excessive visual demand DIVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY
• Asthenopia, diplopia… • ESOTROPIA greater at DISTANCE
• Treatment: • Neurological disease
Orthoptic exercises
Base-out prism (convergence training) • Mimic bilateral CN6 palsy
• Treatment:
Base-out prism/surgery
VERTICAL ESTRABISMUS
DISSOCIATED VERTICAL DEVIATION
(DVD)
• Cover eye: upward + excyclotorsion/abduction
• Uncover eye: no refixation after uncover fellow eye
• Bilateral, asymmetric
• DOES NOT OBEY HERING’S LAW
• Occurs with eye occlusion/intattention
• Latent/manifest
• Associations:
• Nystagmus
• Congenital ET
• Inferior oblique overaction
• Treatment: (bilateral surgery)
• SR recession
• IR resection
• IO weakening/anterior transposition
VERTICAL ESTRABISMUS
INFERIOR OBLIQUE
OVERACTION (IOOA) PALSY
• Association: congenital ET • Eye hypotropic
• Bilateral, asymmetric • A-pattern
• Adducting eye elevated
• V-pattern
• Treatment:
• IO weakening
Recession
Myectomy
Anteriorization
VERTICAL ESTRABISMUS
SUPERIOR OBLIQUE
CN 4 palsy
OVERACTION PALSY
• Less common than IOOA • CONGENITAL:
Large fusional amplitudes
• A-pattern
Facial asymmetry
• Adducting eye depressed Torticollis
• Treatment: Mimic double superior rectus palsy
SO weakening • ACQUIRED:
Treatment:
Trauma - Knapp classification:
Diplopia Strengthen palsied: SO
• BILATERAL: Weaken antagonist ipsilat: IO
Weaken yoke: IR
10° excyclotorsion - Torsional symtpms:
V-pattern endotropia Harada-Ito procedure: lateral
Alternate hypertropia transposition of anterior SO
VERTICAL ESTRABISMUS
BROWN’S SYNDROME
A PATTERN V PATTERN
• Superior oblique overaction • Inferior oblique overaction:
Bilateral CN IV palsy
Congenital esotropia
• Cyclic esotropia
• Brown’s síndrome
• Craniosynostoses
SPECIAL FORMS OF ESTRABISMUS
DUANE’S RETRACTION SYNDROME
• Restrictive horizontal strabismus most common
• Abnormal inervation lateral rectus by CN3 (Abducens nucleus)
• DOES NOT OBEY SHERRINGTON’S LAW
• Narrowing of palpebral globe
(cocontraction medial/lateral rectus)
• UP/DOWN shoots
• Types:
• 1: ABDuction limitation, appears esotropic
• 2: ADDuction limitation, appears exotropic
• 3: ABD/ADDuction limitation
• Associations: deafness, Goldenhar’s Sd.
• Treatment:
• Avoid muscle resection
• Faden procedure for up/downshoot: splitting lateral rectus
Oculoplastic
ANATOMY
• No lymphatic vessels in orbit
• 45 mm deep, volume 30cc
Orbital apertures
• Superior fissure (greater-lesser sphenoid wings)
CN 3, 4, V1, 6 + superior ophthalmic vein + sympathetics
Annulus of Zinn : out CN4, lacrimal/frontal nerves
• Optic canal (lesser sphenoid wing)
Optic nerve + ophthalmic artery + sympathetics nerves
Orbital walls
Roof: frontal, sphenoid
Lateral: Zygomatic, sphenoid
Floor: Zygomatic, maxillar, palatine
Weakest
Medial: Maxillar, ethoid, lacrimal, sphenoid
ORBITAL INFLAMMATION
CELLULITIS (S. aureus)
(Adults: Polymicrobial // Children: Unimicrobial (ethmoid))
• Preseptal
• Orbital
THYROID-RELATED OPHTHALMOPATY
IDIOPATHIC ORBITAL TUMOR • Most common cause of uni/bi-lateral proptosis
• Pain and diplopia in adults
• Unilateral (bilateral 33% in children) • ♀ (8-10 x) > ♂
• Enlargement muscles + tendons • Smoke (7x)
• Dx: CT scan, ECO, Biopsy,… • Enlargement muscles, sparing tendons (IMSLO)
• Treatment: steroids • Associated with Myasthemia gravis
Tolosa-Hunt Sd: • Eye lid retraction (most frequent finding)
Granulomatous inflammation - Pain
• CAS (Clinical Activity Score) - Redness
Cavernous sinus/Superior orbital fissure/Optic canal - Swelling
• Treatment: steroids - Impared function
• Surgery: Descompression > strabismus > eyelid
ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA
• Communication carotid artery-cavernous sinus
DIRECT:
• Carotid-cavernous sinus
• Head trauma (skull fracture) /spontaneous rupture aneurysm
• Pulsatile proptosis + chemosis (corkscrew vessels) + bruit + IOP elevated
• CN6 palsy / blood Schlemm’s canal
• Dx: CT scan > MRI > Selective arteriography
DURAL-SINUS:
• Meningeal branches of carotid artery-dural walls of cavernous sinus
• Low flow
• Asymptomatic (proptosis)
ORBITAL TUMORS
CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA NEURILEMMOMA (Schwannoma)
• Most common benign orbital tumor adults MENINGIOMA
(≠ children: capillary)
• ♀ (growth accelerated pregnancy)
• Apex LYMPHOID TUMORS
• 90% non Hodgkins B-cells tumors (MALT)
• Slowly progression
• NO pain proptosis
• Encapsulated
• SUPERIOR/ Lacrimal gland
• High internal reflectivity (ultrasound) • TC scan: putty-like molding
• Systemic involvement: Eyelid> orbit > conjunctiva
HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
• Obnormal pericytes surronding blood vessels
• Rare, ♀
METASTASIC TUMORS
• Superior
• ♀: Breast carcinoma (enophthalmos)
• ♂: lung carcinoma
LACRIMAL GLAND TUMORS
NON EPITHELIAL
• Lymphoma
Most common tumor in lacrimal gland
Around globe
EPITHELIAL
• 50% Benign
PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA
Most common epithelial tumor
♂
Slow growth
Painless mass, proptosis
NO BIOPSY: complete excision
• 50% Malignant
Painfull (perineural invasion), rapidly progressive, bony destruction
ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA
Most common malignant tumor
Pathology: cribiform pattern (Swiss-cheese)
Exenteration
PLEOMORPHIC ADENOCARCINOMA
MALIGNANT EYELID TUMORS
• EPITHELIAL
Actinic keratosis: most common precancerous lesion
BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
Most common malignancy of the eyelid
Lower lid > medial canthus (lacrimal invasion) > upper lid > outer canthus
Nodular, ulcus rodens, morpheaform
SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
Lower lid
More agressive
Direct extension/ metastasize
KERATOACANTOMA:
Keratin-filled crater, rapid onset
Muir-Torre Sd:
keratoacantoma + sebaceous adenocarcinoma + visceral tumors
SEBACEOUS ADENOCARCINOMA
Second most common malignancy of the eyelid
Upper lid
Lethal tumor (metastasis)
Pagetoid invasion
• MELANOMA
<1% all eyelid cancers
Nodular: most common type in eyelid
NASOLACRIMAL SYSTEM DISORDERS
• Obstruction
Congenital:
Valve of Hasner
Massage/Probing
Acquired:
Dacryocystitis: DCR surgery (middle turbinate)
• Canaliculitis
Actinomyces israelii
Curetttage
• Tumor lacrimal sac
Squamous papilloma: most common primary lacrimal sac tumor
Squamous cell carcinoma: most common primary malignant lacrimal sac tumor
Lymphoma: second most common primary malignant lacrimal sac tumor
GLAUCOMA
TESTING GLAUCOMA
TONOMETRY
Higher IOP: lying down, mornings
Lower IOP: exercise, pregnancy, summer
• INDENTATION
Schiotz: affected by scleral rigidity (falsely low in elastic eyes)
• APPLANATION
Imber-Fick principle
GOLDMANN-PERKINS
- Not affected by scleral rigidity. AFFECTED by corneal thickness - Rings too narrow
- Astigmatism: >1.5 D (axis of MINUS cylinder align with red mark) Understimated - Thin cornea
• REBOUND - With the rule astigmatism
- AFFECTED by corneal thickness
- No need anesthesia
• PASCAL DYNAMIC CONTOUR TONOMETER
- The most independent corneal thickness
- Overestimates compared to Goldmann tonometer
• OCULAR RESPONSE ANALYZER
- Column of air of increasing intensity as the applanating force
- Corneal hysteresis
• APPLANATION + INDENTATION
TONOPEN
PNEUMOTONOMETER
• GONIOSCOPY
TESTING GLAUCOMA
• INDIRECT LENS
• Big size: GOLDMANN (scleral indentation)
• VISUAL FIELD
Affected by pupil < 3 mm
Vision < 20/80 scotoma appears larger and deeper
Fixation loss: Best method to know reliability GENETICS:
False-positive: nervous or happy trigger
False-negative: loss attention/fatigue - Congenital: CYP1B1
- Juvenile: GLC1A = GLC1A /MYOC
• OPTIC NERVE HEAD ANALYZERS - Normal tension: OPTN
Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (HRT) - PXG: LOXL1
Indirect measure NFL thickness, digital ·D picture - Aniridia: PAX6
Optical coherence tomography - Anterior segment dysgenesis:
Low frequency inferometry FOXC1/PAX6/CYPX2
Scanning laser polarimetry (GDx)
Birefringent properties of NFL
NFI index: >30 glaucoma suspect, >50 abnormal
PRIMARY OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA
• Most common cause of glaucoma
• Risk factors:
African race (3-4x)
Thinner central corneal thickness (<550 µm)
DM
Retinal disease: central retinal vein occlusion, retinitis pigmentosa, rhegmatogenous retinal
detachment
• Peripapillary atrophy is not a sign of glaucoma damage
• Damage in yellow-blue color axis occurs first
• Splinter hemorrhage:
- Inferotemporal
- Normal tension glaucoma
- Precede the scotoma in the visual field
SECONDARY OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA
• Cells clogging of trabecular meshwork
Hyphema
Sickle cell (treatment: B-blockers, contraindicated: CAIs/hyperosmotics)
Tumor cells
• PIGMENTARY GLAUCOMA PSEUDOEXFOLIATION GLAUCOMA
• AD
• Young myopic ♂ (Lattice) • ♀, LOXL1, amyloid-like substance deposits
• Concave iris • Scandinavians
• Krukenberg spindle • Sampaolesi’s line
• Angle: pigment distribution HOMOGENEOUS • Angle: pigment distribution HETEROGENEOUS
• Transillumination: RADIAL midperipherial • Transillumination: MARGIN pupil
• Treatment: laser trabeculoplasty/iridotomy
• Weak zonules
• Decreased enothelial cells
• Schwartz’s syndrome • Trearment:
Rhegmatogenous RD (photoreceptor outer segments, pigment RPE) More difficult to control
laser trabeculoplasty
• Elevated episcleral venous pressure
Blood in Schlemm’s canal
AV fistula, NF, Sturge Weber, thyroid-related ophthalmopathy
PRIMARY OPEN-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA
ACUTE ANGLE CLOSURE PLATEAU IRIS
• Eskimos > Asians (Chronic Africans) • Configuration
• 55-65 y, ♀ Deep central AC / shallow peripheral AC
• Optic nerve swelling/ hiperemia Flat iris
• Glaukomflecken (sequele of ischemia) • Syndrome
• Compression gonioscopy Angle closure, in spite of a patent iridotomy
Not pupillary block
• Shallow AC 40-50 y
• Convex iris Indentation gonioscopy: double hump sign
• Closed angle Treatment: laser iridoplasty
• Pupillary block
SECONDARY OPEN-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA
NANOPHTHALMOS
• Small eye with normal features
• > 10 D hyperopia, <20 mm axial length, cornea 10.5 mm, shallow AC, narrow angle
Pupillary block
Uveal effusion: thick sclera // anterior rotation of CB
Treatment:
Cycloplegics, laser iridoplasty, surgery
NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA
• Iris rubeosis > fibrovascular membrane (open angle glaucoma) > membrane contraction (closure angle glaucoma)
• Retinoblastoma: 50% develop
TREATMENT
OCULAR HYPONTENSIVE MEDICATIONS
• Β-BLOCKERS Adverse effects
Reduce aqueous production
Less effective over time - May mask hipoglucemia
Maximum effect 2h, duration 12 h - Impotence
Many contraindications - Increase stherogenic profile
Cardioselective: β-1 betaxolol - Decreases exercise tolerance
Pregnancy
• α- AGONISTS - Allergy
Reduce production // Increase uveoescleral outflow - CNS penetration
Contraindicated in children and with antidepressant drugs
• MIOTICS
Parasymphathetics agonist: pilocarpine - Myopia
Increase trabeculum outflow // decrease uveoescleral outflow - Breakdown blood-aqueous barrier
• CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS (CAIs) - Orals: Metabolic acidosis
Decrease bicarbonato formation - Corneal endotelial decompensation
• PROSTAGLANDIN ANALOGUES
Increase uveoescleral outflow - CME
Bimatoprost: Increase trabeculum/ uveoescleral outflow - Reactivation of herpes
• HYPEROSMOTIC AGENTS - Congestive heart failure
Increase serum osmolality - Headache
TREATMENT
LASER TRABECULOPLASTY (Contraindicated: large PAS/ uveitic glaucoma)
PXG and pigmentary glaucoma, old people: best results
• ARGON (ALT)
Twice in life Same effectiveness
• SELECTIVE (SLT)
Less energy, less tissue destruction
It is repeatable (twice/year)
SURGERY
• TRABECULECTOMY
Most common cause of failure: epiescleral fibrosis
Do not use antimetabolites in young myopic patients
• DRAINAGE IMPLANTS
• Valve: Ahmed
• Nonvalve: Molteno, Baerveldt
Complications
ENCAPSULATED BLEB
ELEVATED IOP?
EXCESSIVE FILTRATION
FAULT OF THE BLEB
BLEB? SUPRACHOROIDAL HEMORRHAGE
PUPILLARY BLOCK
MALIGNANT GLAUCOMA
FLAT IOP?
BLEB LEAK
CHOROIDAL DETACHMENT
GOOD LUCK!!!