What is it - a cataract called the pathological state of the eye, caused by the clouding of the lens and the loss of its elasticity. In this case, various types of visual impairment can be observed...

Hyperopia( hypermetropia) is a visual anomaly that marks a shortening of the anteroposterior axis, a small diameter of the cornea and a small anterior chamber of the eyeball. The thickness of th...

In the classification of ophthalmic diseases, viral conjunctivitis is the most common disease caused by infection of the eye conjunctiva. Leaks, both in episodic and in epidemic form. It is char...

Aniopathy of the retina is not an independent disease, it becomes only a symptom of the diseases of the circulatory system throughout the body, specifically, the blood vessels in the ocular retin...

Allergic conjunctivitis is a conjunctival reaction that has an inflammatory character, manifested under the influence of an allergen( under the condition of an acute susceptibility of the organism)...

Eye diseases occur quite often, one of the most common is glaucoma. With such a pathology as glaucoma, the intraocular pressure constantly or periodically rises due to the fact that the outflow ...

Hirudotherapy in Latin means "treatment with leeches."This method of treating a variety of diseases has been known since antiquity and is now widely used in modern medicine. Medical leeches a...

Congenital glaucoma is a serious eye disease in newborns, which is the leading cause of blindness in children. It appears due to an abnormal increase in intraocular pressure during pregnancy in ...

Gonococcal conjunctivitis refers to severe eye damage that can lead to complete blindness. At the moment, gonorrhea of ​​newborns is the exception rather than the norm. It occurs only in cases w...

Myopia is perhaps the most common eye disease among modern adults and children. The essence of myopia is that the patient's ability to distinguish objects far from him worsens. If a person...

The visual analyzer consists of an eyeball and an auxiliary device, which includes the upper and lower eyelid, the lacrimal gland, the muscles of the eyeball and the fat body around the orbit. ...

Amblyopia in adults, also called the "lazy eye" in common people, is more common today than a few years ago. The main sign of this unpleasant pathology is a sharp decline in vision. Why does t...

Strabismus in children is manifested as a deviation in the direction of one or both eyes when looking at the subject. For the appearance of a normal volumetric image, it is necessary that both ey...

Myopia( myopia) is one of the most common diseases of the visual system. A person suffering from myopia, poorly sees distant objects. In most cases, the cause of this is the lengthening of th...

Anisocoria is a phenomenon in which a different diameter of the pupils is observed. Its appearance is associated with an imbalance in the function of the eye muscles responsible for the dilatatio...

With farsightedness( hypermetropia), there is a violation of the accommodation function of the eye, in which the image is not focused on the retina itself, as it should be normal, but behind it....

Glaucoma is a disease in which the intraocular pressure increases, causing degenerative-dystrophic processes in the eye and optic nerve. The most dangerous complication is blindness, which occur...

Blepharitis is a complex of ophthalmic diseases associated with inflammation of the eyelids. There are several varieties of blepharitis, which differ from each other in the causes, manifestat...