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...

The defeat of the mucous membrane of the eye, which is expressed in its inflammation, is called "conjunctivitis." The disease occurs quite often, equally in children and adults, and occurs as a r...

One of the varieties of various inflammatory eye diseases is blepharitis. It is accompanied by inflammatory processes along the edges of the eyelid. Different populations are affected, regardles...

Halyazion is a proliferative( non-inflammatory) inflammation, a benign formation that occurs in the meibomian gland region, that is, at the edge of the century, and is the result of chronic inflamm...

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...

Conjunctiva is a shell of the eye, covering not only the proteins of the eyes, but also partially the eyelid. It consists of a cylindrical epithelium. Conjunctivitis is characterized by the fact...

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)...

Conjunctivitis is an inflammatory process that affects the conjunctival membrane. It is located on the back of the eyelid, and also covers the eyeball before joining the cornea. Conjunctiviti...

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...

Childish astigmatism is such an optical defect when two optical foci exist simultaneously in the eye, and neither of them is located where it should be. This is due to the fact that the cornea o...

Dacryocystitis may have acute and chronic course. Often the chronic form is complicated by dacryolitis - it is the accumulation of epithelium, calcium, lipids and protein in the lacrimal sac, th...

Glaucoma is a disease of the eye, for which a characteristic feature is increased intraocular pressure, causing degenerative-dystrophic processes in the optic nerve and visual impairment. The ca...

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 ...

There is such a science - geriatrics, it deals with the peculiarities of the course of pathological processes in the body of older people. In addition, geriatrics studies and develops methods fo...

The separate direction in ophthalmology - clinical and social ophthalmology deals with the problem of social adaptation and preservation of working capacity of people with visually impaired, com...