28 Jan When You need a Glaucoma Specialist
Do you need to see a glaucoma specialist? Here's when I think you need to see a specialist. Share this with your friends and family in recognition of Glaucoma Awareness Month....
Do you need to see a glaucoma specialist? Here's when I think you need to see a specialist. Share this with your friends and family in recognition of Glaucoma Awareness Month....
Do you have glaucoma? Does a relative or friend? January is Glaucoma Awareness Month - here's what you can do to raise awareness and save the sight of someone you know....
Do you know if you have glaucoma? How would you know? Here's a list of risk factors for developing the disease. Most patients have no symptoms. Read on...
Diabetic retinopathy causes the retina to lose blood supply. A chain events causes liberation of VEGF and can lead to blindness....
Glasses can only improve vision by ensuring that an image is focused precisely on the retina. In the presence of disease, glasses can't improve vision....
Diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration can both cause legal blindness. Complete blindness is caused only by diabetic retionpathy. Report either to the IRS....
Diabetes increases your risk of 2 types of glaucoma. The...
Most eye diseases, especially macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, don't hurt. There are some eye diseases that can cause significant pain, but the retina has no nerve endings, so it doesn't hurt because...
Neovascularization develops in both macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. It is the neovascular tissue, or abnormal blood vessels, that causes blindness and is mediated by VEGF....
Pan-retinal laser photocoagulation has been the gold-standard treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Avastin injections may become a safer, better alternative to retinal laser treatment to prevent blindness....