Sentences with phrase «patients facing blindness»

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Many patients face delayed diagnosis and treatment, meaning the disease progresses and causes further ill health and risk of complications, for example myocardial infarction, blindness, and stroke, which are difficult and expensive to treat.

Prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder (typically, but not always, caused by acute brain damage) wherein the patient is unable to distinguish between faces.