Sentences with phrase «severe vision loss»

And with early detection and appropriate treatment, the risk of severe vision loss from the disease can be reduced by 95 percent.

The condition is the most common cause of severe vision loss in people age 50 and older in developed countries.

New research from scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has found that tiny lumps of calcium phosphate may be an important triggering factor for age - related macular degeneration (AMD), a degenerative eye disease that can cause severe vision loss and blindness.

However, one drug, aflibercept, provided greater improvement for people with more severe vision loss when treatment was initiated.

With the aid of magnifying tools, students with less severe vision loss can often use the same handouts and textbooks as their sighted peers.

This video correctly covers the fact that patients who eat a healthy diet are much less likely to suffer severe vision loss from Macular Degeneration (ARMD).

A butterfly - shaped pigment accumulation in the macula of the eye, which can lead to severe vision loss in some patients, is due to...

The company wants to correct a type of Lebar congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic disorder that causes severe vision loss.

For participants with more severe vision loss (20/50 or worse), aflibercept improved vision on average nearly four lines, bevacizumab about 2.5 lines, and ranibizumab almost three lines.

More than 20 million Americans have suffered blindness or less severe vision loss.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

«For a nice two decades scientists have dreamt about using human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases... that day has finally come... scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to successfully treat patients suffering from severe vision loss»

However, dry AMD through a period of years slowly can progress to late - stage geographic atrophy (GA)-- gradual degradation of retinal cells that also can cause severe vision loss.

Advanced Cell Technology, of Marlborough, Mass., said it would test its stem cell therapy on 12 adults with severe vision loss caused by Stargardt's, an inherited disease.

I will always remember the image of my great - grandmother, who spent most of the days I can remember on a bed and moving only with the help of others, due to her severe vision loss.

Most dogs with PPM have functional vision but occasionally there will be moderate to severe vision loss in the affected eye.