Interesting eye diseases!

[Helmets]

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Hey I'm a med student from Iceland and will be doing my one week eye-rotation in a couple of weeks. Every friday the two med students that are rotating through optho have to present some fascinating disease of their own choice.

Since the attendings have been there for at least 10 years(many of them even longer) I think they have heard presentations about pretty much every common/uncommon thing med students can think of. Last week my friend(who most likely is going into psych) did a presentation on conversion disorder presenting as blindness and they were really impressed and genuinely interested.

So I was wondering, since I know almost nothing about the eyes except for the crazy common things, if you have any interesting diseases, possibly rare, for me to present them with?

My main interest in medicine is endocrinology but they've probably heard about/treat diabetic retinopathy, graves eye disease and pituitary tumors compressing the optic nerve million times already.

I was thinking of talking about Charles-Bonnet syndrome but I feel like that's much more neuro than optho.

 

[PBEA]

Onchocerciasis

 

[ophthope]

Septo-Optic dysplasia. Has endocrine involvement. Unlikely you'll see a case of that during your two weeks, though.

But long story short, use this as an opportunity to learn for yourself without trying to impress attendings with something new. If their boards are anything like ours in the USA then they have learned and been tested on every rare disease with ocular involvement that you could ever find. Including the one I just mentioned.

 

[Dusn]

The problem with truly rare diseases is that the attendings won't be interested because they know they'll probably never see it. If you have the option of new technology that would be my choice. I'd probably do it on OCT angiography