Jacqueline Carrasco BASICS DESCRIPTION Thyroid eye disease (also referred to as Graves’ ophthalmopathy, thyroid-related or associated orbitopathy or ophthalmopathy; TED) is an autoimmune process affecting extraocular muscles and orbital fat…
BASICS DESCRIPTION • Multisystem autoimmune disease • Chronic course with relapses and remissions • Organ systems most frequently involved: skin, joints, kidneys, blood, and CNS • Diverse manifestations in eye:…
Kristin M. Hammersmith BASICS DESCRIPTION • Acute, painful, vesicular eruption distributed along the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (1). • Ocular inflammation without characteristic rash: Zoster sine herpete (2)….
BASICS DESCRIPTION • Painless, bilateral vision loss including dyschromatopsia and central or centrocecal scotoma • Exception is unilateral vision loss from phosphodiesterase inhibitors, which are possibly associated with ischemic optic…
BASICS DESCRIPTION • Uveitis: intraocular inflammation – Anterior: involving iris and ciliary body (e.g., iritis, iridocyclitis) – Intermediate: involving pars plana (i.e., pars planitis) – Posterior: involving retina (i.e., retinitis)…
Carol L. Shields BASICS DESCRIPTION • Intraocular metastasis – most common tumor of the eye • Most common site of involvement is choroid (63%) • Other sites – iris, ciliary…
Jerry A. Shields BASICS DESCRIPTION • Eye cancer of children • Tends to manifest between 6 months and 3 years of age • Accounts for 4% of all childhood malignancies…
BASICS DESCRIPTION Presbyopia, literally “old eyes,” is the condition where the ability to see clearly at near is lost due to the gradual loss of accommodation in the aging eye….
