Treat Glaucoma Before It Is Too Late.
Alan Leighton discovered he had glaucoma when he noticed a gray extent of remark in his left eye. That was in 1992. "I think about I had it a long time before that, but I didn't know until then," said Leighton, 68, a corporate treasurer who lives in Indianapolis. "Glaucoma is as if that. It's sneaky".
Leighton made an engagement with his ophthalmologist to see what was wrong. "We went for a bunch of tests, and he unfaltering there was an issue with that eye, and that I had normal pressure glaucoma".
His response was unsentimental and pragmatic: His kids has a history of glaucoma, so the news wasn't a total surprise. "I pronounced that we needed to take the most proactive methods we could. I would go to the best people I could find and behold what methods they had to address it and keep it from getting worse. I wanted to keep it from affecting my right eye, which was extent clear. I didn't know what the process was going to be to actually stop the glaucoma or veto it, if it was even possible. I don't know if there was a lot of emotion involved. It was more like, 'Hey, what can we do about this?'".
He asked if there was any style to restore the sight he'd lost, and the answer was no. "They charming much said that gray area in my left eye was going to stay there, and there was no chance to do any procedures to effectively change that. It had something to do with the optic nerve".
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Sunday 10 December 2017
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Diabetes Degrades Vision
Diabetes Degrades Vision.
Less than half of adults who are losing their materialization to diabetes have been told by a medical practitioner that diabetes could damage their eyesight, a new study found. Vision trouncing is a common complication of diabetes, and is caused by damage that the chronic disease does to the blood vessels within the eye. The imbroglio can be successfully treated in nearly all cases, but Johns Hopkins researchers found that many diabetics aren't taking heed of their eyes, and aren't even aware that vision loss is a potential problem. Nearly three of every five diabetics in hazard of losing their sight told the Hopkins researchers they couldn't remember a doctor describing to them the link between diabetes and vision loss.
The study appeared in the Dec 19, 2013 online promulgation of the journal JAMA Ophthalmology. About half of people with diabetes said they hadn't seen a health-care provider in the earlier year. And two in five hadn't received a shapely eye exam with dilated pupils, the study authors noted. "Many of them were not getting to someone to go over them for eye problems," said study leader Dr Neil Bressler, a professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
And "That's a denigration because in many of these cases you can regale this condition if you catch it in an early enough stage," added Bressler, who is also chief of the retina unit at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. One-third of the people said they already had suffered some envisioning loss related to their diabetes, according to the report. Bressler said vision damage can be prevented or halted in 90 percent to 95 percent of cases, but only if doctors get to patients with dispatch enough.
Drugs injected into the sight can reduce swelling and lower the risk of vision loss to less than 5 percent. Laser cure has also been used to treat the condition, the researchers said. Dr Robert Ratner, key scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association, called the findings "frightening" and "depressing. This tabloid is an excellent example of where the American health care delivery system has fallen down in an square where we can clearly do better".
For the study, researchers used survey data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2005 and 2008 to review article the responses of people with archetype 2 diabetes who had "diabetic macular edema". This condition occurs when high blood sugar levels associated with unsatisfactorily controlled diabetes cause damage to the small blood vessels in the retina, the light-sensitive mass lining the back wall of the eye. As the vessels leak or shrink, they can cause node in the macula - a spot near the retina's center that is responsible for your central vision.
Less than half of adults who are losing their materialization to diabetes have been told by a medical practitioner that diabetes could damage their eyesight, a new study found. Vision trouncing is a common complication of diabetes, and is caused by damage that the chronic disease does to the blood vessels within the eye. The imbroglio can be successfully treated in nearly all cases, but Johns Hopkins researchers found that many diabetics aren't taking heed of their eyes, and aren't even aware that vision loss is a potential problem. Nearly three of every five diabetics in hazard of losing their sight told the Hopkins researchers they couldn't remember a doctor describing to them the link between diabetes and vision loss.
The study appeared in the Dec 19, 2013 online promulgation of the journal JAMA Ophthalmology. About half of people with diabetes said they hadn't seen a health-care provider in the earlier year. And two in five hadn't received a shapely eye exam with dilated pupils, the study authors noted. "Many of them were not getting to someone to go over them for eye problems," said study leader Dr Neil Bressler, a professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
And "That's a denigration because in many of these cases you can regale this condition if you catch it in an early enough stage," added Bressler, who is also chief of the retina unit at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. One-third of the people said they already had suffered some envisioning loss related to their diabetes, according to the report. Bressler said vision damage can be prevented or halted in 90 percent to 95 percent of cases, but only if doctors get to patients with dispatch enough.
Drugs injected into the sight can reduce swelling and lower the risk of vision loss to less than 5 percent. Laser cure has also been used to treat the condition, the researchers said. Dr Robert Ratner, key scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association, called the findings "frightening" and "depressing. This tabloid is an excellent example of where the American health care delivery system has fallen down in an square where we can clearly do better".
For the study, researchers used survey data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2005 and 2008 to review article the responses of people with archetype 2 diabetes who had "diabetic macular edema". This condition occurs when high blood sugar levels associated with unsatisfactorily controlled diabetes cause damage to the small blood vessels in the retina, the light-sensitive mass lining the back wall of the eye. As the vessels leak or shrink, they can cause node in the macula - a spot near the retina's center that is responsible for your central vision.
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