Functional Visual Disorders — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Central scotoma, paracentral scotoma, and temporal field defects are tested by _____ visual field testing.

Answer: Monocular

Flashcard 2: Impairment of colour vision _____ seen with optic neuritis

Answer: is (is/is not)

Flashcard 3: FFA shows disc delay and choroidal delay in which type of Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (AION)?

Answer: Arteritic AION (AAION)

Extra: Choroidal filling delay is a hallmark of AAION (often associated with Giant Cell Arteritis) and helps differentiate it from NAION, where choroidal filling is typically normal. Both involve disc filling delays, but AAION's involves the posterior ciliary arteries supplying the choroid.

Flashcard 4: Holmgren's wool-matching test is used for the assessment of _____.

Answer: color vision

Flashcard 5: In _____ optic atrophy, there will be a well defined disc margin and chalky white color.

Answer: simple

Flashcard 6: Maddox _____ test is used to check for heterophoria for distance vision

Answer: tangent

Flashcard 7: Chronic effects of poor illumination is _____

Answer: Miner's nystagmus

Flashcard 8: Signs in Grave's ophthalmopathy:_____ sign: Convergence weakness

Answer: Mobius

Flashcard 9: Visual loss in optic neuritis is _____, painful, progressive and profound

Answer: sudden

Flashcard 10: _____ is a condition of abnormal myelination of the nerve fibers of the retina, where myelination continues beyond lamina cribrosa and spreads into the retina beyond the optic disc.

Answer: Medullated nerve fibers (optic disc medullation)