Ophthalmology

Uveitis is a rare disease that affects one or both of the eyes. In about half of the cases, the cause of uveitis is unknown. However, in the cases were a cause has been discovered, it has been things such as and injury or surgery of the eye, and autoimmune disorder such as Ankylosing Spondylitis (a type of arthritis), an inflammatory disorder such as Crohn’s disease (inflammation of bowels and digestive tract), an infection such as Lyme disease or West Nile virus, or a cancer that affects the…

Dacryocystitis , the inflammation of lacrimal sac and duct has been known from the earliest times due to its grosser manifestations involving cosmetic defects on face. For a long time, swelling near the medial canthus was considered as a soft tissue infection known as “Aegylops”. It was in the middle of the first century that it could be recognized as a disease of the lacrimal passage when Versalius and Fallopius22 described the lacrimal sac with accuracy. George E Stahl23 showed that the…

If you frequently dislocate your joints and have eye problems, the issues may be medical related. Frequent dislocation of joints may be caused by a connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which is due to a genetic mutation of the collagen in nearly each of your body's cells. Other common symptoms of EDS include muscle stiffness and tightness, popping or clicking joints when moving, and clumsiness. Now, you may be wondering how can these issues relate to the eyes. It's because…

During cataract surgery, a small incision is made to your eye in order remove the cloudy lens and clean it out or replace it with a new news. As a result, this small incision leads to inflammation around the eye area after surgery. A few signs may include swelling and redness. While the inflammation should go away a few days after your surgery is complete it can be uncomfortable to deal with. Luckily, there are a few tips you can use in order to reduce the inflammation around your eyes until it…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

Corneal abrasions One of the most common eye injury occurring while playing sport is the scratch of the cornea or corneal abrasion in medical term.This injury consist of the scratching of the cornea by the finger or the fingernail of a player.An abrasion can be small or large depending of the gravity of the scratching.This type of injury ensues when the corneal epithelium is abraded and it is more common in basketball (Brummit & Ericksson p.150) where the players in general without face…

The Blepharoplasty Operation Surgery on the eyelids may be done as an isolated operation or in conjunction with a facelift, brow lift, or other procedure (see Chapters 11-13). Both upper and lower eyelids can be corrected at the same operative setting; alternately, one pair of eyelids can be corrected as an isolated procedure. The procedure is almost always performed around both eyes. Blepharoplasty is an outpatient procedure that is typically done with intravenous sedation and local anesthesia.…

When society hears a person strive to become a doctor they relinquish a sigh of respect because the environment for a pre-health student is competitive. Many aspects form the intensive four-year plan to ready the individual for a tougher medical school learning process. Therefore, the pre-health requirements in college are essential for building a thorough candidate for the medical field. This knowledge of how a medical school candidate is formed will inform others of the hard work students must…

Based on Sherry’s health history, the examiner decided to perform vital signs and focused physical examination of the eyes and its associated systems. Therefore, the examiner performed a physical exam of head, ears, eyes, nose and throat (HEENT). Like other parts of the physical exam, it begins with inspection, and then proceeds to palpation (Bickley & Szilagyi, 2013). After taking Sherry’s health history, her Vital signs were taken in order to find out if there is any change in her baseline,…

“According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention at least 17.1 million people report dual sensory impairment (paragraph 1, page 243).” What is dual sensory impairment, well it 's the impairment if both vision and hearing. It is most prevalent in adults older than 70 years. So most of the experimental research conducted, the participants where of age 70 years or older with vision impairment, vision loss or dual sensory impairment. There are several known causes for vision impairment…