What Does A Normal Fundus Look Like?

Normal Fundus. The disk has sharp margins and is normal in color, with a small central cup. Arterioles and venules have normal color, sheen, and course. Background is in normal color. The macula is enclosed by arching temporal vessels.

What should a normal eye fundus look like?

The media are clear, providing a crisp view of the fundus. The optic disc appears pink with sharp margins and a cup-to-disc ratio of approximately 0.35. The vasculature is normal in course and caliber. The striated sheen radiating outward from the disc is evidence of a healthy retinal nerve fiber layer.

What is fundus image and a normal fundus image?

Normal fundus photographs of the right eye (left image) and left eye (right image), seen from front so that left in each image is to the person’s right. The left image (right eye) shows lighter areas close to larger vessels, which is regarded as a normal finding in younger people.

How do you assess the fundus of the eye?

Hold the instrument with the hand ipsilateral to the examining eye; both are ipsilateral to the eye being examined: examine every left fundus with your left eye, holding the ophthalmoscope in your left hand (Figure 117.2); and every right fundus with your right eye and hand.

How would you describe a normal fundus?

Normal Fundus. The disk has sharp margins and is normal in color, with a small central cup. Arterioles and venules have normal color, sheen, and course. Background is in normal color. The macula is enclosed by arching temporal vessels.

What is fovea and macula?

Fovea: The pit or depression at the center of the macula that provides greatest visual acuity. Macula: The portion of eye at the center of the retina that processes sharp, clear, straight-ahead vision.

How would you describe a normal macula?

The macula is part of the retina at the back of the eye. It is only about 5mm across but is responsible for our central vision, most of our colour vision and the fine detail of what we see. The macula has a very high concentration of photoreceptor cells – the cells that detect light.

How do you examine fundus?

Funduscopic Examination

1. Keep both yours and the person’s eyes.
2. Have the patient focus on a distant object.
3. Look at right fundus with your right eye.
4. Ophthalmoscope should be close to your eyes.
5. Set the lens opening at +8 to +10 diopters.

What is eye Oct?

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive diagnostic instrument used for imaging the retina. The OCT uses an array of light to rapidly scan the eye. These scans are interpreted and the OCT then presents an image of the tissue layers within the retina.

What is fundus photo of eye?

Fundus photography is the process of taking serial photographs of the interior of your eye through the pupil. A fundus camera is a specialized low-power microscope attached to a camera used to examine structures such as the optic disc, retina, and lens.

What part of the eye does a Funduscopy examine?

Ophthalmoscopy, also called funduscopy, is a test that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other structures using an ophthalmoscope (or funduscope).

How do you visualize the macula?

If using the PanOptic, you can slightly “pivot” or ask the patient to look up to see upper retina, down to see lower retina, medial to see medial, latereral to see lateral and finally to look at the light to visualize the macula.

What does Papilledema look like?

Symptoms and Signs of Papilledema Ophthalmoscopic examination reveals engorged and tortuous retinal veins, a hyperemic and swollen optic disk (optic nerve head), and retinal hemorrhages around the disk but not into the retinal periphery.

Where can I palpate fundus?

Feel for the fundus of the uterus. This is done by starting to gently palpate from the lower end of the sternum. Continue to palpate down the abdomen until the fundus is reached. When the highest part of the fundus has been identified, mark the skin at this point with a pen.