Sentences with phrase «of central vision»

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.

As the disease progresses, retinal sensory cells in the central vision area are damaged, leading to loss of central vision.

LHON is associated with painless, sudden loss of central vision in the 1st eye, with the 2nd eye sequentially impaired.

That Christian must see all life in light of this central vision and, conversely, must see this central vision in the light of all the rest that is known and seen.

Many Americans, more than in a long time, have come to feel that our problems do not arise merely from a faulty choice of means but from a failure of our central 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.

Patient reports of feeling «slower than normal» after a concussion have been associated with visual dysfunction of the central vision reaction times (CVRT).

In 1997, the mainstays of therapy for patients with macular degeneration include daily monitoring of the integrity of their central vision (usually by viewing a simple printed grid) as well as periodic visits to their eye doctor.

The loss of central vision often occurs by the age of 40, meaning that a lot of RP patients will spend half of their lives legally blind.

Patients with RP experience gradual loss of side vision and night vision, and later of central vision, which can result in near blindness.

A man in his 80s and a woman in her 60s received the treatment for age - related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition which leads to a rapid loss of central vision.

Vision researchers in Boston have published the second paper of a study designed to determine if a driver who suffers from loss of central vision is able to detect pedestrians in a timely manner when driving.

In AMD, the RPE cells stop performing their support functions and the rods and cones die, resulting in a loss of central vision.

These retinal cells are the type that are killed off in macular degeneration, eventually leading to the death of photoreceptors, and the gradual 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.

At the age of 16, Christine was diagnosed with Stargardt's Disease, a condition that effects the retina and causes a loss of central vision.