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OPTOM 375 - EBMD and RCE Certification Review Exam Questions With Multiple Choices And Verified Answers.

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Risk factors for RCE? (4) - correct answer - Dry eye/OSD - MGD - Ocular rosacea - Diabetes What is the primary etiology of RCE? - correct answer - Epithelium/BM (EBMD) - Bowman Layer (Reis-Buckler) ...

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OPTOM 375 - EBMD and RCE

Risk factors for RCE? (4) - correct answer - Dry eye/OSD

- MGD

- Ocular rosacea

- Diabetes



What is the primary etiology of RCE? - correct answer - Epithelium/BM
(EBMD)

- Bowman Layer (Reis-Buckler)

- Stomal dystrophy (Lattice - RCE common; granular - RCE rare)



What is the secondary aetiology of RCE? - correct answer Following a
traumatic abrasion:

- Salzmann

- Advanced/longstanding band keratopathy

- following bacterial ulcers

- following LASIK

- epidermolysis bullosa (mucous membrane pemphigoid)



What is band keratopathy? - correct answer The deposition of calcium salts in
Bowman layer, epithelial basement membrane and anterior stroma.



What are some causes of band keratopathy? - correct answer - chronic
anterior uveitis

- chronic corneal edema

- chronic severe keratitis

- longstanding glaucoma

- age related (healthy otherwise)

, - metabolic

- hereditary



What causes Salzmann nodular degeneration? - correct answer it occurs
secondary to chronic keratitis (trachoma, chronic allergic bleph, chronic allergic keratoconjunctivitis, dry
eye)



What does Salzmann look like? - correct answer elevated blue-grey nodules in
superficial storma.



What is EBMD? - correct answer Thickening of the BM with deposition of
fibrillary protein between the BM and bowman's layer.



Proky's notes:

- chronic, non-inflammatory bilateral corneal condition.

- prevalence 5-6%

- onset 2nd decade

- mostly caucasian women

- 10% develop RCE in 3rd decade

- may arise spontaneously following TCA



what type of patterns of lesions may you see in EBMD? - correct answer - dot
like opacities

- epithelial micro cysts

- sub-epithelial maps

- whorled fingerprints

- bleb-like sub epithelial pebbled glass



What layer of the cornea does Reis-Bucklers dystrophy affect? - correct answer
Bowman Layer

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