Ophthalmology
19 free questions tagged Ophthalmology, each with a full explanation of every option.
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A 6-year-old girl has had a cold for a week and two days of increasing redness and swelling of her left eyelids. Today she is feverish (38.9 °C) and miserable.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman who wears soft contact lenses and often sleeps in them presents with 24 hours of an increasingly painful, red, watering right eye and marked…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 66-year-old man with atrial fibrillation presents 40 minutes after the sight in his left eye "went out like a light" while reading; there was no pai…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 72-year-old woman with hypertension reports three episodes in the past week in which the vision in her right eye became obscured from the top down, each lasti…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 78-year-old woman presents with sudden painless loss of vision in her right eye on waking this morning. For the past three weeks she has had a right-sided hea…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 66-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department at 9 pm with severe right-sided headache, nausea and repeated vomiting that began while she was watch…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 64-year-old woman develops sudden, profound painless loss of vision in her left eye 90 minutes before assessment. The left pupil has a relative afferent pupil…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 71-year-old man develops severe pain and blurred vision in his right eye over two hours. He reports coloured haloes around lights and nausea; examination show…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 67-year-old man notices flashes of light and a sudden increase in dark spots in his right eye. Several hours later he describes a grey curtain progressing fro…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old woman presents with a unilateral red eye that began this morning. She reports marked discomfort and says bright light is unpleasant, but has no hi…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-day-old newborn presents with purulent conjunctivitis, eyelid swelling, and significant eye discharge. What is the most appropriate initial treatment?
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 65-year-old man with a history of severe myopia presents to the emergency room with a sudden onset of flashes of light and floaters in his left eye. He descri…
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old woman presents to the clinic with a severe right-sided headache and temple tenderness for the past two weeks. She also reports jaw pain while chew…
Year 3 · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man with a 15-year history of diabetes mellitus presents to the emergency department with a sudden onset of vision loss in his right eye. He does…
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a sudden onset of severe right eye pain and vision changes for the past 3 hours, accompanied by a s…
Year 3 · Clinical rotations · common
Which of the following conditions is characterized by a cherry-red macula on fundoscopic examination?
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common
What is the initial management step for a patient with a chemical eye injury?
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common
A 37-year-old man presents with a painless red patch in his left eye. He denies trauma, vision changes, or any discharge. He has a history of chronic hypertensi…
Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common