Ophthalmology
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Thread: Pathognomonic Signs of Common Diseases for the USMLE 📚🩺 Part 2 1/ 🧵 Continuing our #USMLE series on pathognomonic signs! Here are more key indicators you should know. Read...
🧵 **Tweetorial**: Unraveling the Impact of Intravitreal Anti-VEGF on Kidney Failure 🧵
37♂. Another RARE case. No PMH. Occipital headache ↑ w/ cough x 30D. Unsteady gait/blurred vision x 3D. Papilledema ++. BP 215/161 mmHg. No significant motor deficit. CEMR brain👇....
Periorbital edema -common complaint in patients treated with imatinib -large lower-eyelid festoons (redundant folds of lax skin and orbicularis oculi muscle that hang below the l...
This child had rashes from the neonatal period and had a cataract. Diagnosis? https://t.co/jpdZhZV3K6
Eyes are the windows into the Brain Here, I discuss 9 situations where symptoms are related to eyes or vision, but disease pertains to brain or nervous system. 1. Sudden onset pai...
A 25-yr-old man IVDU 👉 one bout of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia last year 👉 successfully treated WBC 3700, Hgb 13.8, Hct 41.2%, MCV 92 fL, and plt count 182,000 👉 progress...
RAPD or Marcus Gunn Pupil Alternatively shine a light back and forth on each pupil and observe. 1 second interval in a diy lit room. Ask pt to fixate on a distant object Avoid...
A 52-year-old woman 👉 a 24-hour history of severe pain and blurred vision in the left eye What is the likely diagnosis? Acute conjunctivitis Acute angle-closure glaucoma Ac...
A previously healthy 8-year-old boy 👉2-week history of painless swelling of the right lower eyelid https://t.co/Vh7DKiPN0Z
Frontal Eye Field Located in the caudal end of the middle frontal gyrus: Brodmann area 8 It's activation leads to conjugate gaze to the contralateral side (1/3) https://t.co/SQIy...
#Wilson_Disease. What is the ocular abnormality? https://t.co/DOR9gKPv6f
Nystagmus series – Part VII (seesaw & hemi-seesaw nystagmus) “Maddox rod, double prism Maddox, red glass Maddox, Maddox cross, and Maddox wing” British ophthalmologist Ernest Edm...
Nystagmus series – Part I (Basic principles) “the two neuro-ophthalmology legends” Richard John Leigh And David Samuel Zee #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials...
🌓🤪 Pac-Man ate my visual fields! 50 year old person presents with sudden onset headache and seeing "pieces of things" on the R. Visual fields look like this👇👇 ➡️What's happening?...
For practicing neurologists/FM/GIM: 25 Yrs F Tension Type Headache + Pulsatile tinnitus + Papilledema + Enlarged blind spot + 6th nerve palsy + MRI evidence of ⬆️ ICP Refusing LP...
It is not often that an eye surgeon is able to awe a room full of medical students and residents in a busy Ophthalmology clinic. 👀. So I'll take this opportunity to write a thread...
Images of Infectious Diseases 40F with congenital heart disease s/p aortic valve repair, presents with a week of fever and cloudy vision of left eye. Exposure: pet cat, rabbit. US...
1/ Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS) – also known as “dancing eyes” syndrome – is a rare syndrome characterized by opsoclonus, myoclonus, and sometimes ataxia or encephalopathy...
DEFINITION: Mutations in the CHM gene cause choroideremia. INHERITANCE: X-linked dominant
Images of Infectious Diseases 2 months after visiting family and friends in Manila: 39M. No PMH. One week of fever, chills, cough, pleuritic chest pain, RUQ pain. Now complains...
Images of Infectious Diseases 62 previously healthy man developed red eye irritation after mowing his lawn. This progressed over 3 weeks despite empiric oral valacyclovir and topi...
Images of Infectious Diseases 28F SLE on MTX CC chest pain, vaginal DC Rx pred for lupus 2 mo: fatigue, pruritic rash, visual floaters Rx pred 1 mo: blurred vision. PE iritis /...
Images of Infectious Diseases 55M. No PMH. HIV-. CC: eye pain with rapid onset blurred vision for few days. What is your diagnostic work up and management plan? #MayoIDQ next h...