Ophthalmology · UKMLA & AKT
Uveitis
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise uveitis — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.
Key high-yield points
- Painful red eye - unilateral; deep aching pain from ciliary muscle spasm
- Photophobia - consensual; ciliary spasm triggered by pupillary light reflex
- Reduced visual acuity - inflammatory cells and flare obscuring visual axis
- Lacrimation
- Ciliary flush - deep red/violet ring at the limbus
- Small, irregular pupil (miosis) - ciliary spasm causes constriction; posterior synechiae cause irregularity
- Hypopyon - visible layer of pus (white cells) settling in inferior anterior chamber; indicates severe inflammation
- Keratic precipitates - clumps of inflammatory cells on corneal endothelium (slit-lamp)
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