28 - AIIMS MAY 2007 mcqs with answers

1q: Which of the following is autosomal dominant disorder ?

a. gyrate atrophy
b. best disease
c. lawrence moon biedl syndrome
d. bassen kornweig's disease

answer b. Best disease

2q: Most common causes of blindness in children, in india are all except ?

a. malnutrition
b. opthalmia neonatorum
c. glaucoma
d. congenital dacrocystitis

answer d. congenital dacrocystitis

3q: Hyaluronic acid is found in ?

a. vitreous humor
b. synovial fluid
c. cartilage
d. cornea

answer a. vitreous humor

4q: which of this does not handle the free radicals in lens ?

a. Vitamin A
b. Vitamin C
c. Vitamin E
d. Catalase

answer a. Vitamin A

5q: which of the following are not included in Vision 2020 ?

a. cataract
b. trachoma
c. onchoceriasis
d. epidemic conjunctivitis

answer d. Epidemic conjunctivitis

24 - AIIMS november 2002 opthalmology mcqs with answers part 1

1q: which morphological type of cataract is most visually handicapping ?

a. cortical
b. nuclear
c. posterior subcapsular
d. zonular

answer c . posterior subcapsular cataract

2q: a 2 year old child presented with leucocoria in the right eye since 2 months. On examination a total retinal detachment was present in the same eye. Ultrasound B scan revealed a heterogenous subretinal mass with calcification . the most likely clinical diagnosis is ?

a. coats disease
b. retinoblastoma
c. toxocariasis
d. retinal tuberculoma

answer b . retinoblastoma

3q: while working in a neonatal ICU your team delivers a premature infant at 27 weeks of gestation and weighing 1500 gm. How soon will you request fundus examination by an ophthalmologist ?

a. immediately
b. 3-4 weeks after delivery
c. At 34 weeks gestational age
d. At 40 weeks gestational age

answer c . 34 weeks of gestational age the first examination should be performed between 4 and 6 weeks of chronological ( postnatal ) age or between 31st and 33rd weeks of post conceptional age which ever is later

4q: a friend of yours has a spectacle correction of – 6.0 and – 8.0 . he telephones you one morning and tells that he has started seeing some opacities floating infront of his eye and that his vision has decreased slightly over the last few days. As an intern in the ophthalmology section, what would you do ?

a. reassure
b. refraction and prescribe a new spectacle
c. direct opthalmoscopy
d. indirect opthalmoscopy

answer d . indirect opthalmoscopy

5q: according to the national programme for control of blindness ( NPCB ) survey ( 1986 – 1989 ) the highest prevalence of blindness in India is in ?

a. jammu and Kashmir
b. Orissa
c. Bihar
d. Uttar Pradesh

answer a . jammu and Kashmir                         Go to part 2