It’s finally here! I just finished up the Glaucoma study guide. In addition to an organized way of learning about all of the various types of glaucoma, I’ve included mnemonics, lists, and summaries of major glaucoma studies. Check it out!
Glaucoma Genetics
Conditions With Increased Risk Of Glaucoma
This review is somewhat multi-disciplinary in nature. As you wrap up your reviews, one of the things I found useful was to create tons of different lists. Regardless of which test you're studying for, there are many questions that are organized differently than how one might go about learning a particular disease. As such, I started making lists of different ways to group otherwise disparate diseases that might show up as a test question, or at least help me remember a specific feature of the disease.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
In light of the Centers for Disease Control's very broad statements about alcohol use in women, perhaps this topic is somewhat appropriate. Like I alluded to in the OKAP review article on embryology, there are many ocular findings associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, which are important to know, both for clinical recognition, and also for ongoing monitoring. For further reference, the CDC has a pretty useful web portal on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Aniridia
As you can probably tell, I'm starting to skip around a little bit while I put together these OKAP review articles. I have a fairly large list of topics to cover, but hopefully these will all be helpful pieces of information. I decided to skip to aniridia, because it is one of those conditions that seems to be very popular in practice questions.
The 8 Causes of Tunnel Visual Fields
There are relatively few causes for tunnel visual fields (or “gun barrel” visual fields), which is a relatively common finding in neuro-ophthalmology. There are 8 major categories of tunnel visual fields, which can be determined systematically through careful history and examination. This differential diagnosis is adopted from Duane’s Clinical Ophthalmology.