Professor of Ophthalmology Dr. Amani Badawi
Table of Contents
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Thyroid Ocular Manifestations
- Hypertensive retinopathy
- Other systemic Ocular manifestations
Which Common Systemic Disease is the Highest Cause of Blindness in the Working Age Population?
Endocrine Disorders
- Most important ones are:
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Pituitary tumours
Systemic Diseases
Learning Objectives
- Understand which systems may have eye-related problems
- How the eye problems may herald systemic disease
- Understand some of the mechanisms of systemic disease and the eye
Eye - A Unique Organ
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Systemic diseases affect eyes in various ways
BUT ALSO
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Many of the systemic diseases may be diagnosed first by an ophthalmologist
Eyes Can Be Affected In:
- Endocrine disorders
- Disorders of connective tissues
- Skin diseases
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Infectious diseases
- Cardiovascular & Pulmonary diseases
- Haemopoietic and lymphoreticular disorders
- Neurological and muscular disorders