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HENT
- Humor Has Access to Trabecular Meshwork
- Presentation
- Painless
- African American
- Elderly
- Positive Family History
- Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
- Most Common Form of Glaucoma
- Unknown Mechanism
- Secondary Open-Angle Glaucoma
- Blocked Trabecular Meshwork (With Open-Angle)
- WBCs
- Red Blood Cells (RBC)
- Retinal Products
- Primary
- Lens causes pupillary obstruction
- Aqueous humor builds behind iris
- Iris bends forward, obstructing trabecular mesh
- Secondary
- Hypoxia Causes Neovascular Proliferation
- Contraction and obstruction of trabecular mesh
- Chronic disease (Crone)
- Asymptomatic
- Acute Disease
- Eye pain and blindness
- Rock-hard eye
- Headache
- Emergency
- Epinephrine contraindicated
- Etiology
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis
- Clinical Features
- Sudden Painless Monocular Vision Loss
- Descending Curtain
- Fundoscopic Findings
- Retinal Plaques
- Grayish Retinal Discoloration
- Cherry Red Spot on Macula
- Diagnosis
- Ultrasound
- Interventions
- Ocular Massage
- Reduce Intraocular Pressure
- Etiologies
- Hypercoagulability
- Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Clinical Features
- Non-Ischemic
- Mild to Moderate Vision Loss
- Sparse Dot-blot and Flame Hemorrhages
- Ischemic
- Sudden, Painless Vision Loss
- "Blood and Thunder" Appearance
- Cotton Wool Spots
- Papilledema
- Interventions
- Observation if Non-Ischemic
- Laser Photocoagulation
- VEGF Inhibitors
- Characteristics
- Angiogenesis
- Increased VEGF
- Asymptomatic Until Late-stage
- Fundoscopic Findings
- Vitreous Hemorrhage
- Retinal Detachment
- Glaucoma
- Findings of Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
- Management
- Laser Photocoagulation
- Surgery
- Bevacizumab
- Characteristics
- Increased Capillary Permeability and Leakage
- Often Asymptomatic
- Fundoscopic Findings
- Retinal Microaneurysms
- Flame-shaped Hemorrhages
- Cotton Wool Spots
- Hard Exudates
- Macular Edema
- Management
- Treat Diabetes
- Laser Photocoagulation
- Bevacizumab
- Mechanism
- Dry (nonexudative)
- Wet (exudative)
- Signs and Symptoms
- Scotomas
- Blurred, Darkened Vision
- Loss of Central Vision
- Distortion of Vision
- Considerations
- Drug Therapy
- Surgery
- Low-vision Assistive Devices
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