Heterotropia is a condition characterized by misalignment of the eyes. This visual disorder can affect people of all ages, impacting their vision and overall eye health. It is the type of strabismus and it is also known as menifest squint. Heterotropia occurs when the eyes are not properly aligned and do not work together. One…
Anisometropic amblyopia is a specific type of amblyopia (suppression of one eye). It occurs due to a significant difference in refractive error (nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism) between the two eyes. In this condition, one eye has a significantly different level of refractive error compared to the other eye, causing the brain to favor the eye…
What is vertical heterophoria? Vertical heterophoria (VH) is often a misdiagnosed condition. The person may suffer from uncontrolled headaches, dizziness, and get no relief on treatment. It is a condition of misalignment of eyes in a vertical plane. This misalignment can often be missed in routine eye exams due to its small size. It does…
Accommodative esotropia is the phenomenon of over convergence in response to neurologic stimulus that demands accommodation to see clearly at distance, intermediate and near point. Linkage of accommodation and convergence We can induce convergence without stimulating accommodation with the help of base out prisms; but we need to stimulate convergence before stimulating accommodation. The accommodation…
Eye allergies and infections is a condition of invasion of microbes which interfere with the normal functioning of eye. The symptoms include foreign body sensation, photophobia, itching, redness and lacrimation and pain in the associated area. The diseases and allergies of cornea, conjunctiva, eyelid and sclera can be the result of bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoa…
Cataract is the acquired or congenital opacification of the lens of the human eye. The lens is the refractive organ of the eye which plays major role in directing the upcoming light rays on the retina to form the real image. Avascular nature of lens The transparency of lens is very essential factor for the…
The different types of drugs for glaucoma are in use. The drug is selected for the treatment after understanding the type of glaucoma in the eye of the patients. Glaucoma is a group of disease associated with optic nerve neuropathy along with rise in intra-ocular pressure of the eye. It can cause visual field defects….
Mid Atlantic Retina in Philadelphia is the leading and one of the top world class retina center with best leading team of retina specialists that one can ask for. The reliability of their doctors immensely increases when one get to know that they have been the ophthalmologists for Philadelphia Sixers. Their physicians have been named as…
Diabetic retinopathy stages The diabetic retinopathy is classified on the basis of well-marked photographs described by EDTRS (Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study). On the basis of presence or absence of neovascularization, it is divided into two types: Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) stages Mild NPDR In this type, the entire fundus seems normal but there are…
Chart test One of the most common in practice astigmatism test is the one in which patient is given a chart with radiating lines of equal length in a hemisphere as given below in the picture. Now close one of your eyes and focus on the lines on the chart. If the lines in any…
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