Anterior uveitis
This term refers to an inflammation of the anterior part of the eyeball (iris and ciliary body) that can present with clinical pictures varying in intensity and depend on...
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Eye diseases
Dry eye syndrome
The dry eye syndrome is particularly widespread in the population, even though this term is often wrongly used to refer to other ocular disorders that are only similar in...
Retinitis pigmentosa
Improperly called "Pigmentary retinitis", it is a serious hereditary condition that generally affects only a few individuals within the same family. Its clinical onset mo...
Ocular herpes
Ocular herpes is a fairly common condition that can be very serious. Without appropriate treatment, the eye may be lost. Current medications enable good healing and fairl...
Glaucoma
The term glaucoma refers to an increase in intraocular pressure causing damage to the optic nerve. This is a serious eye disease almost invariably manifested by an incre...
Macular degeneration
Macular degeneration is adiseasemainly affecting elderly subjects, leading to a progressive and irreversible loss of central vision. Agenetically transmissibledisease, it...
Retinal detachment
Retinal detachment is a serious eye condition. It is due to the separation of the retina from the more external membranes of the eyeball with which it is normally in clos...
Floaters
Floaters are due to the abnormal presence of opacities of varying density and morphology in the vitreous.Under certain lighting conditions, their shadow is projected onto...
Choroiditis
This term refers to aninflammation of the posterior part of the eyeball(choroid) that may present with clinical pictures of varying intensity and depend on extremely dive...
Cataract
It is characterized by aclouding of the lensleading to impaired vision. Usually slowly progressive, it causes increasingly troublesome vision loss.At first, the patient i...