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Cystoid Macular Edema
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The prognosis depends upon the location of the uveitis, on whether it is chronic or acute, and on the promptness of treatment. The prognosis for untreated uveitis is poor.
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Glaucoma refers to a group of disorders that lead to damage to the optic nerve, the nerve that carries visual information from the eye to the brain.Open-angle glaucoma; Chronic glaucoma; Closed-angle glaucoma; Congenital glaucoma.Glaucoma is the s...
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Glaucoma is a group of eye disorders that results in vision loss due to a failure to maintain the normal fluid balance within the eye. If fluid pressure builds up, then damage to the optic nerve occurs, leading to vision loss.
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Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases characterized by damage to the optic nerve usually due to excessively high intraocular pressure(IOP).This increased pressure within the eye, if untreated can lead to optic nerve damage resulting in progressive, ...
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Glaucoma is a condition where the optic nerve is subject to damage—usually, but not always, because of excessively high intraocular pressure(pressure within the eye, also called IOP). If untreated, the optic nerve damage results in progressi...
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Glaucoma is a group of eye disorders that results in vision loss due to a failure to maintain the normal fluid balance within the eye. If detected in its early stages, vision loss can be prevented through the use of medications or surgical procedu...
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Glaucoma is a slowly progressive eye condition that causes damage to the optic nerve. It is the leading cause of blindness among African-Americans and older adults in the United States.
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A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye.This article focuses on cataracts in adults. For information on cataracts in children, see: Congenital cataracts.The lens of the eye is normally clear.
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A cataract is a cloudiness or opacity in the normally transparent crystalline lens of the eye. This cloudiness can cause loss of vision and may lead to eventual blindness.The human eye has several parts.
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Cataract, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, is a clouding of the crystalline lens of the eye. Symptoms of cataract include blurred vision, difficulty reading print and street signs, light sensitivity, and glare disability.
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Blindness is a lack of vision. It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.Partial blindness means you have very limited vision.
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Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can''t be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person''s ability to function at certain or all tasks. Legal blindness(which is actually a severe visual i...
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Retinal detachment is a separation of the light-sensitive membrane in the back of the eye(the retina) from its supporting layers.The retina is a transparent tissue in the back of the eye. It helps you see the images that are focused on it by the c...
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Retinal detachment is movement of the transparent sensory part of the retina away from the outer pigmented layer of the retina. In other words, the moving away of the retina from the outer wall of the eyeball.There are three layers of the eyeball.
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Retinal detachment is a serious eye disorder in which the retina, a thin tissue of cells located in the back of the eye, separates from the underlying tissue layers.There are three layers of the eyeball. The outer, tough, white layer is called the...
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Optic nerve atrophy is tissue death of the nerve that carries the information regarding sight from the eye to the brain.There are many unrelated causes of optic atrophy. The most common cause is poor blood flow, called ischemic optic neuropathy, w...
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