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Systemic Disease & the Eye
The eye is often the first place a systemic disease becomes visible — diabetes, hypertension, rheumatologic and vasculitic disease, neurologic disease, blood disorders, thyroid disease, HIV, and the drugs used to treat them all leave characteristic signs an ophthalmologist can read.
Vascular & Metabolic Disease
Diabetic Retinopathy — A Systemic Perspective
Epidemiology, NPDR vs. PDR, clinically significant macular edema, glycemic and BP control.
ReadHypertensive Retinopathy & Choroidopathy
Keith-Wagener-Barker classification, retinal vascular signs, Elschnig spots, Siegrist streaks.
ReadHematological Disease — Retinopathy
Sickle cell retinopathy, Roth spots, hyperviscosity syndrome, TTP, polycythemia vera.
ReadAutoimmune & Inflammatory Disease
Rheumatologic Disease — Ocular Manifestations
RA, Sjögren syndrome, HLA-B27 spondyloarthropathies, sarcoidosis, and lupus.
ReadVasculitis — Ocular Manifestations
Giant cell arteritis, ANCA-associated vasculitis, Takayasu arteritis, Behçet, Cogan syndrome.
ReadPediatric & Juvenile Systemic Uveitis
JIA-associated uveitis risk stratification, screening, and biologic therapy escalation.
ReadNeurologic & Endocrine Disease
Neurological Disease — Ocular Manifestations
MS/optic neuritis, INO, myasthenia gravis, Miller Fisher syndrome, IIH.
ReadNeuro-Ophthalmic Localizing Signs
Pupil-involving CN III palsy, Horner syndrome, cavernous sinus syndrome, chiasmal lesions.
ReadMigraine & Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Scintillating scotoma vs. release hallucinations in vision loss — two visual phenomena compared.
ReadThyroid Eye Disease — Systemic & Endocrine Perspective
Graves pathophysiology, orbital fibroblast signaling, eyelid signs, teprotumumab.
ReadInfectious Disease, Genetics & Drug Toxicity
HIV/AIDS — Ocular Manifestations
HIV retinopathy, CMV retinitis, PORN, Kaposi sarcoma, immune recovery uveitis.
ReadGenetic & Connective Tissue Syndromes
NF1 Lisch nodules, albinism, Marfan syndrome, aniridia/PAX6, mitochondrial disease.
ReadDrug-Induced Ocular Toxicity — Retinal
Hydroxychloroquine, amiodarone, thioridazine, and ethambutol toxicity.
ReadDrug-Induced Ocular Toxicity — Glaucoma & Anterior Segment
Topiramate and sulfonamide angle closure, IFIS, steroid glaucoma, drug-induced uveitis.
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