Myopia management
Build repeat-use workflows around progression tracking, atropine awareness, and chair-side monitoring for school-age patients.
Eye Diseases & Conditions
Eye Diseases & Conditions
Concise clinical summaries focused on recognition, differential diagnosis, and referral thresholds — grouped by anatomical region for quick access.
Supporting library
Eye disease pages are being refined for recognition, differentiation, and referral.
This section is broad, so the priority is practical detection support rather than trying to make every disease page equally exhaustive. Higher-value conditions should connect directly to pathways, tools, and reference pages.
- •Use disease pages to recognize patterns, spot red flags, and confirm referral urgency.
- •Priority clusters for deeper linking: myopia, dry eye, glaucoma, and cataract-related care.
- •Longer-term maintenance will focus on consistency rather than maximum breadth on every page.
Start with the highest-value clusters
If you are triaging where to spend time, these four clusters are the best places to connect disease recognition with pathways, calculators, and medication-awareness references.
Dry eye
Link workup, severity grading, medication-awareness, and ocular surface differentials so clinicians can move faster from symptoms to plan.
Glaucoma
Keep risk stratification, co-management, and medication-awareness close together for repeat use in monitoring and referral decisions.
Cataract
Use cataract content mainly for recognition, documentation, peri-operative awareness, and referral-ready slit-lamp findings.
Cornea Conditions
Keratitis, keratoconus, ulcers, dystrophies, and ocular surface disease.
Open categoryIris Conditions
Uveitis, aniridia, melanoma, hyphema, pigment dispersion, and angle disorders.
Open categoryRetina Conditions
AMD, diabetic retinopathy, occlusions, detachment, and inherited disorders.
Open categoryEyelids Conditions
Blepharitis, trichiasis, ptosis, lid lesions, and eyelid malignancies.
Open categoryConjunctival Conditions
Conjunctivitis, allergic disease, pterygium, episcleritis, and ocular surface neoplasia.
Open categoryShowing 1–12 of 85 conditions
Acanthamoeba Keratitis
Severe protozoal infection, often contact lens-related with ring infiltrate.
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Leading cause of central vision loss in older adults — dry and wet forms.
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Allergic Conjunctivitis
Bilateral itch and chemosis from IgE-mediated mast cell degranulation; managed with antihistamines.
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Aniridia
Congenital near-total iris absence from PAX6 mutation; associated with glaucoma, foveal hypoplasia, and WAGR syndrome.
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Anterior Uveitis (Iritis)
Anterior chamber cells and flare with ciliary flush; most common uveitis type — urgent slit-lamp diagnosis required.
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Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis
Chronic bilateral disease in adults with atopic dermatitis; risk of fornix scarring and corneal neovascularisation.
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Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome
Anterior segment dysgenesis with posterior embryotoxon and iris strands; ~50% develop glaucoma.
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Bacterial Conjunctivitis
Mucopurulent discharge with diffuse injection; usually self-limiting, topical antibiotics shorten duration.
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Basal Cell Carcinoma
Most common eyelid malignancy, locally invasive with pearly borders.
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Blepharitis
Chronic inflammation of the eyelid margins, often staphylococcal or meibomian-related.
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Blepharospasm
Involuntary bilateral orbicularis oculi spasm causing functional blindness; idiopathic or dystonia-related.
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Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion
Sudden sectoral vision loss from arterial embolus or thrombosis.
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