Sentences with phrase «optic nerve disease»

Now scientists in Nigeria and Britain have completed a placebo - controlled trial in more than 3500 people which shows that ivermectin reduces the incidence of optic nerve disease caused by the worm Onchocerca volvulus (The Lancet, vol 341, 16 January 1993, p 130).

«We hope that these cells can eventually lead to new treatments for glaucoma and other forms of optic nerve disease.»

He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and stereoscopic depth perception and has developed tests for the diagnosis of retinal and optic nerve diseases.

Final Report Summary: Many optic nerve diseases result in permanent loss of vision.

Brain diseases and optic nerve diseases can appear just like SARDs by causing blindness over days to weeks, and an ERG can distinguish between these neurological diseases and SARDs.

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Mice with this eye disease, which damages the optic nerve and causes vision loss, have higher levels of the immune molecule, which accumulates at retinal synapses before the neurons die.

Doctors in those jurisdictions may prescribe cannabis to treat or manage ailments ranging from glaucoma — an eye disease in which the optic nerve is damaged — to menstrual cramps.

Those tests don't give us the details we need to understand the nature of the pathology at the cellular level, so we modeled the disease to perform a systematic analysis of the optic nerve, from its origin in the eyes to termination in the brain.»

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.

The disease puts pressure on the optic nerve through fluid build - up, and can irreversibly damage vision if not properly treated.

When the UNSW approach was used to assess 13 patients with early glaucoma or optic nerve damage, and 42 people without eye disease, greater vision loss was detected in all patients than using the standard test.

The drops protected the animals» retinal ganglion cells and optic nerves, both of which are generally damaged by the disease.

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic's disease, is a central nervous system disorder that primarily affects the eye nerves (optic neuritis) and the spinal cord (myelitis).

Glaucoma is thought to be a disease in which the optic nerve sustains damage due to increased eye pressure, resulting in a restricted visual field.

Glaucoma comprises a group of eye diseases that cause pressure to build up in the eye, which damages the optic nerve and ultimately leads to blindness.

Our lab is developing gene therapy strategies to treat optic neuropathies, potentially blinding diseases of the optic nerve.

We have some biomarkers for glaucoma that tell us whether patients have the disease, like visual field tests or imaging, just letting your doctor look at the optic nerve in the back of the eye is a biomarker for whether you have glaucoma and, at least at a gross level, whether it's getting worse.

On the surface, the disease appears relatively simple, with high pressure (intra-ocular pressure, or IOP) within the eye associated with the death of cells in the retina and optic nerve dysfunction.

Another example, this is something that's going on in my laboratory, is that we're starting to look at protein and fat deposits in the retina and the optic nerve that we hopefully can measure in blood serum that tell us that the disease is progressing early on.

Some eye diseases, including glaucoma, damage the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) that make up the optic nerve.

• Refractive errors • Cataracts • Optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve • Retinal diseases, such as a retinal tear or detachment • Macular degeneration • Glaucoma • Conjunctivitis • Diabetic eye problems, such as diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema

Glaucoma is actually a series of diseases that damage the optic nerve (the nerve that connects the retina of the eye to the brain), often when too much pressure is put on the eye due to fluid buildup.

Glaucoma is a group of diseases which can result in damage of the optic nerve and may lead to loss of vision and blindness.

MS is an inflammatory disease that affects the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord.

One study conducted in 2014 concluded that smokers with Graves» disease were more likely to experience rapid eye deterioration, including the development of double vision, the constriction of eye movement, and irreversible optic nerve damage.

The term «optic neuritis» compromises all diseases of the optic nerve that cause deterioration and usually produce a sudden visual field problem or total loss of vision in one or both eyes.

Progressive Retinal Atrophy - Also known as PRA Blindness, this is a degenerative disease of the optic nerve.

They include diseases of the cornea (keratitis), the lens (cataract), increased pressure within the eye (glaucoma), any disease which reduces retinal sensitivity to light impulses (retinal atrophy), or any disease which affects the optic nerves or the sight - center of the brain (tumours, trauma).

As the disease progresses, the head of the optic nerve, which can be seen exiting the back of the eye starts to look atrophied,» he said.

Possible disease include keratitis (inflammation of the covering over the cornea), episcleritis (nflammation of the episcleral tissue), uveitis inflammation of the uveal tract) and glaucoma (damange to the optic nerve due to high blood pressure in the eye).