Ophthalmology · UKMLA & AKT
Uveitis
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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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