What is Marfan Syndrome? Marfan Syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue. Since connective tissue is found throughout the body, this can cause symptoms related to the skeleton, eyes, heart, and blood vessels. Even the skin can be affected. Marfan symptoms are caused by a mutation in the FBN1 gene. People with ...
Eye problems in dogs are just as common and can be just as devastating as they are in any other animal, people included. If a beloved pet looses their eye sight, life changing events can occur for the pet and for the pet’s family. The pet will face the rest of it’s life being without ...
Our eyes are like cameras. Light enters the eye through the pupil and reaches the lens. The lens focuses the light onto the retina, which can be likened to a camera film. The retina is a light-sensitive nerve layer or membrane at the back of the eye. It receives images and transmits them to the ...
It’s one a handful of physical disorders named after a flower. This very rare eye syndrome is congenital. It’s the result of a malformation of the optic nerve head that resembles the morning glory. This malformation causes a posterior displacement of the optic disc in a funnel-shaped space surrounded by a raised pigment ring, according ...
That headache behind your eye or strange lines you are seeing may not mean you have a physical problem with your eyes. It may be an ophthalmic migraine. These eye aches are actually common and sometimes painless despite the title of migraine attached to this condition. Eye migraines have visual symptoms with or without the ...
Sitting in the ophthalmologist’s waiting room, I glanced at the images posted on the wall of what it might look like, seeing through the eyes of someone with various types of eye diseases. Macular degeneration appeared as the label on one picture. At a recent eye exam, my optometrist told me I had dry ...
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