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  1. wonderful site dude, seems to be written by a professional, and for dummies. i think every book should be like this… so simple to understand, yet comprehensive…keep it up!

  2. excellent question and answer session.reall helped me prepare for my exams.Thank you.

  3. Super book! Rapid fire revision of Ophthal – extremely well-presented. Thanks!

  4. kanmin xue says:

    surely you mean answer is ‘d’ for question 12?

    Editors Note: I believe the current answer is correct. One of the most common reasons for a sixth nerve palsy is increased intracranial pressure. Vasculopathic causes (hypertension and diabetes) also cause many cranial nerve palsies. A aneurysm (such as a cavernous sinus aneurysm) could cause a sixth nerve paralysis, as the sixth nerve does travel right next to the internal carotid … but this is relatively rare compared to the other abducens palsies.

  5. aray saleh says:

    thanks for thisnice book

  6. Great site, thank you very much!! I really enjoyed the quiz at the end too. However, I do have one question/concern…for number 29, I learned that 1mm=11 prism dioptres. Are you sure of your answer because this is the first time I have ever heard of 1mm=15 prism dioptres as you have in your answer. My answer would have been (b) since that’s the closest to 22 pd. Thanks again!

  7. if i remember correctly, the hirschberg reflex is 0.5 mm nasal in a normal individual due to the light source being 40 cm away. a 2 mm temporal corneal light reflex would show that the individual has a 2.5 mm ESOtropia which comes out to 27.5 pd, which is closest to (c).

  8. Truely wonderful to have such simple illustrative site. I hope success & advance more for such great sites.

  9. wonderful fun-to-do questions. thanks a lot

  10. rely, i got good knowledge from this site.i wish that it will b helpful for my future and for others,who seek knowledge.

  11. What if an ophtalmology requires an MRI of the head?

  12. Fantastic resource in revising for exams. Thanks!

  13. Great Site…however with regards to question number 12;in the scenario described the patient appears to have a cranial nerve 6th palsy as the cannot abduct the eye..hence , shouldn’t the answer be (d)? If there was a third nerve palsy from an aneurysm, the manifestation would hav been a lack of adduction of the eye amongst other things. please clarify.

    Editor: The answer is (c). You are correct, however, in that the question describes a 6th nerve palsy. Some of the common causes of 6th nerve palsy are vasculitic risk factors (diabetes, HTN) and increased intracranial pressure. This leaves (c) Aneurism as the remaining choice. Aneurism is a common cause of 3rd nerve palsy, but we’re not talking about that in this question. Thanks for commenting!

  14. zain ikram says:

    after going through these video lectures i want to be a ophthalmologist.really great work.

  15. ashish malik says:

    simple yet beautiful illustration…thanks

  16. Great resource! With regards to the Hirschberg question. I learned that you don’t know how far the eye is deviated until you examine the reflex monocularly. That way you know what’s ‘normal’ for that patient. Deviation then can be quantified from that base. As for 10, 11, or 15 diopters per mm deviation from the norm, why worry? Get the general idea, then quantify with prism rack or loose prisms if you need precision.

  17. It’s really wonderful work

  18. can vision be corrected due to use of cialis ?

  19. dr. mouse says:

    Hello there,
    I say this to be FUN-Tastic!! lovely… fitting fitting! tu cha gaya hai! great

    thankyou,
    come again

  20. hagit u are number 1 !!!!!!

  21. thank u very much
    may God bless u

  22. concise, yet detailed enough, not to mention entertaining videos. appreciate your sincere passion and generosity in all your efforts to explain Ophtha in the easiest way for me to understand and retain the knowledge. A big fan. Please don`t get tired of doing these. Thank you and God speed.

  23. Irshad Ali says:

    Wonderfull, Excellent effort
    Thank you

  24. Thank you for this excellent teaching material!!

  25. This is the best way I have ever had opthalmology explained to me! I’m a final year med student and I now can enjoy studying the eye, rather than being terrified by it! Thank you- a life changing resource!

  26. Okwuwa Juliet says:

    Thanks dis is wonderful.

  27. Great site- I was checking it out to try and figure out a COMLEX step 3 exam question (from a retired exam for self-assessment). It had a 52 year old woman with slightly blurred vision who also experienced ‘vision loss’ when going from dark to light environments and accompanied by headache, mild pain, and mild conjunctival injection. Asked for the best diagnostic step, answer choices were: dilated retinal exam, slit lamp eval., fluorescein drops, measure intraocular pressure, or visual field test. Seeing how comprehensive a slit lamp exam is- I think that is the best answer(?). Thank you.

  28. William F Davitt MD says:

    GREAT resources, Dr. Root. I host Emergency and Family Medicine residents in my clinic, and they ‘meet’ RootAtlas.com and the OphthoBook on day one. Thanks for making their rotations so much fun.

  29. very well presented. brings back all the stuff learnt over the years into memory in a concise manner. great job!

  30. Of the truth I tell you; this is the best site I’ve ever enjoyed on the internet. Great work! Good skills and ideas. I need more of this.

  31. Manoj Abraham says:

    I would be happy to do more questions with you. Its wonderful that you took the time and pain to compile this.

  32. it is very fantastic questions.thanx to share this resource

  33. It is exellant for refreshment of our khnoledge

  34. NDEKEZI ALLAN says:

    this is really helpful. thnx

  35. Well presented & specific explanation to the answers. Good work.

  36. its really useful!send me more

  37. senkadhir says:

    Excelnt explntns:-)

  38. Thank you so much. This was very helpful to me and I am planning on taking the information back to my clinic so it will helpful to them as well. Very well done.

  39. TANKS FOR THESE NICE QUESTIONS!

  40. Henry Owiny says:

    I love the questions and back up of answers

  41. My father is 87 years young. He has worn glasses all of his life. He has muscular degeneration in one eye. My question is are there any surgery or treatments that might improve my fathers sight? Thank you in advance for your time.

  42. Nice Info, helped me practice for my tommorow paper

  43. Syed Barkat Islam says:

    U r the best,,,,Sir

  44. Mayur Parmar says:

    Superb. Very nice explanation to the quizs. Many a times i was wrong.

  45. Thank you guys it’s verry nice, I think I will solve my exam paper tommorow

  46. Musinguzi leonard uganda says:

    thank u very much. I appreciate ua great work. keep it up

  47. Tahir Rasool says:

    Nice work and thank you very much.

  48. Dakurah Menance says:

    Really enjoyed every bit of it. Interesting to know that questions capture essential areas and practical in nature. This has inspired me more to learn the basics of ophthalmology, though not a medical student. Being a public health student, but I have tapped useful information from your website that will help me in my exams and as a guide when I start to practice. Please, keep up the hard work.

  49. Its’really usefull and very nice explanation.Thank you.

  50. Christopher Banda says:

    indeed its a great resource. I can now phase my ocular pathology exams.

  51. Anastasia says:

    Thank you so much!

  52. dr. rashed says:

    great job
    & also very much helpful sir.
    but I am looking approach to problem oriented question with differential diagnosis & finally confirmation of the diagnoses.can you plse help sir or is there any such site???
    thanks in advance.

  53. Comment: this is a wonderful site for students in ophthalmology, really thanks for your help

  54. Thank u Timothy sir …..it’s really simplified and helpful.😊

  55. Mir J Hussain says:

    The answers are so close that it requires comprehensive knowledge to answer correctly.
    Great Job Professor !!!👍🏻

  56. Christian CHristian Duru says:

    Well constructed questions and answers. More of this Tim

  57. This is quite helpful simple and clear explanations

  58. Gilala kija says:

    logic questions and nice explanation

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