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It is light-sensitive and communicates visual messages to the brain. If the retina detaches, it moves and shifts from its normal position. This can cause photopsia, but can also cause permanent vision loss. Medical attention is needed to prevent vision loss. Procedures may include laser treatment, freezing, or surgery.
Treatment. Treatment is largely aimed at reducing the amount of new blood vessel growth and preventing complications that may arise as a result, including retinal tears and detachments. Using a laser, an ophthalmologist burns the portions of the retina that are not supported by blood vessels, a technique known as laser photocoagulation. [1]
Globally, the number children with blindness is approximately 1.4 million, representing 4% of the global blind population, and an additional 17.5 million are at risk of developing poor vision. [31] Although this number is significantly lower than the number of blind adults, the estimated economic and social burden of blindness for children is ...
Some treatments include glasses, patching the stronger eye to force the brain to use the weaker (amblyopic) eye or using a special eye drop to blur the vision in the stronger eye. Your child’s ...
The poor visual performance is understood as distress, and treatments are usually to provide the patient with low powered reading glasses. The "relaxing" nature of reading glasses is believed to reduce the near vision stress and allow normal function. The emotional effects of chronic near vision stress are also reduced.
Birdshot chorioretinopathy may show resistance to treatment. Immunosuppressant therapy along with oral corticosteroid has been somewhat effective in slowing down the progressive inflammation associated with the disorder, preserving visual integrity as much as possible. Long-term use of such medications must be closely monitored, however, due to ...
Macropsia is related to other conditions dealing with visual perception, such as aniseikonia and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS, also known as Todd's syndrome). Macropsia has a wide range of causes, from prescription and illicit drugs, to migraines and (rarely) complex partial epilepsy, and to different retinal conditions, such as ...
Suppression of an eye is a subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. The brain can eliminate double vision by ignoring all or part of the image of one of the eyes.