Sentences with phrase «causes loss of central vision»

The American Macular Degeneration Foundation warns that retinal damage caused by direct exposure to blue light may lead to macular degeneration, which causes the loss of central vision — the ability to see what's in front of you.

Although having the mutation more than doubles a person's risk of the disorder, which causes loss of central vision, it doesn't mean that person will automatically develop the disorder.

Not exact matches

What they determined after further tests, however, was that she had multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system and was causing optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause a partial or complete loss of vision.

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have teamed up with clinicians to create a new drug - delivery strategy for a type of central vision loss caused by blood vessel growth at the back of the eye, where such growth should not occur.