Retinal Disorders
The part of the eye that sends visual messages to the brain is known as the retina. Disorders of the retina include disease of, injury, or damage to the retina, all of which affect the quality of vision. Some retinal disorders are serious enough to cause blindness. The most common retinal disorders are retinal detachment, retinoblastoma, retinopathy, Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO), Macular Degeneration (also known as Age-related Macular Degeneration or AMD), and Retinitis Pigmentosa.
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[Criswick-Schepens syndrome — familial exudative vitreoretinopathy. Report of six cases in two consanguineous families].
Abstract: Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy is a hereditary, bilaterally progressive formation of a vitreoretinal membrane. It usually occurs in full-term newborns without previous treatment with hyperbaric oxygen. In this report, we present six cases of this...
Surgical and other treatments of diabetic macular edema: an update.
Abstract: Christoforidis, D'Amico, , , , , , , (2004). Surgical and other treatments of diabetic macular edema: an update. International ophthalmology clinics, 2004 ;44(1):139-60. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14704528
[Treatment of Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO) by Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy (HBO)–Pilot study with 21 patients].
Abstract: Central retinal artery occlusion causes severe loss of vision. Treatment trials include massage of the globe, paracentesis, antiglaucomatous eye drops, haemodilution or lysis therapy, which in individual cases did improve the visual outcome, although in...