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Ophthalmology
Ocular Manifestations of Intracranial Infections
Built from Khurana — Neuro-Ophthalmology
What’s inside
5 sections · 49 slides
Overview
- What this deck covers
Why the Eye Reveals Brain Infection
The anatomy that links the eye to the inside of the skull
- The brain and its coverings
- Anatomical bridges from brain to eye
- General considerations: eyes as a mirror of the brain
Ocular Features and Clinical Work-up
The cardinal eye signs and how to work a patient up
- Cardinal ocular signs — cranial nerve clues
- Cardinal ocular signs — pupil, gaze and disc
- History to take in suspected intracranial infection
- Examination signs that suggest intracranial infection
- Investigations to order
Infections by Organism
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and prions — and their eye signs
- Bacterial causes of intracranial infection
- Suppurative bacterial meningitis
- Viral causes of intracranial infection
- Viral lesions: encephalitis and aseptic meningitis
- Treatment of viral infection
- Fungal infections — overview
- Aspergillosis
- Mucormycosis — the vessel-loving fungus
- Rhinocerebral mucormycosis
- CNS mucormycosis
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcosis — diagnosis and treatment
- Parasitic infections — overview
- Toxoplasmosis — the organism and its forms
- Toxoplasmosis — how humans get infected, and types
- Congenital toxoplasmosis
- Acquired toxoplasmosis
- Toxoplasmosis — ocular features
- Echinococcosis and cysticercosis
- Prion diseases
Clinical Presentations
Abscess, meningitis, encephalitis and cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Intracranial abscesses — where the pus collects
- Abscesses — clinical picture and management
- Meningitis — definition and clinical types
- Bacterial meningitis — who causes what
- Tuberculous meningitis — ocular manifestations
- Acute meningococcal (epidemic) meningitis
- Basal meningitis — acute and chronic
- Meningitis of middle-ear origin
- Chronic chiasmal arachnoiditis
- Encephalitis
- Encephalitis — ocular manifestations
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Key takeaways
- References
- Neuro-Ophthalmology