NOOB Question - Time to laugh at the Med Student

[USCTrojan11]

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Hi guys, I'm an MS2 writing a case report and I'm stuck on this concept.

Aphakia means an eye without a lens. However, in cataract patients who've had an IOL implanted, are they still called aphakic because they don't have a natural lens?

Go ahead and make fun of me.

 

[namams]

Hi guys, I'm an MS2 writing a case report and I'm stuck on this concept.

Aphakia means an eye without a lens. However, in cataract patients who've had an IOL implanted, are they still called aphakic because they don't have a natural lens?

Go ahead and make fun of me.

An eye with an IOL is pseudophakic.

 

[xanthomondo]

Hi guys, I'm an MS2 writing a case report and I'm stuck on this concept.

Aphakia means an eye without a lens. However, in cataract patients who've had an IOL implanted, are they still called aphakic because they don't have a natural lens?

Go ahead and make fun of me.

Relax, don't be so hard on yourself. People make it through med school and (non ophtho) residency without knowing anything about the eye. We all start somewhere.

 

[RestoreSight]

Congratulations. You now know more about the eye than 99% of your class.

 

[Visionary]

Congratulations. You now know more about the eye than 99% of your class.

This.

 

[xanthomondo]

Congratulations. You now know more about the eye than 99% of your class.

 

[cubsrule4e]

Congratulations. You now know more about the eye than 99% of your class.

It amazes me how some of the genius medicine guys know so little about even basic eye anatomy. I had a cardiology fellow consult me the other day for "scleral swelling" after a surgical procedure.

 

[Jay Gatsby]

Congratulations. You now know more about the eye than 99% of your class.

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