Retina and Vitreous

November is Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month Sixty percent of Americans with Diabetes Skip Annual Sight-Saving Exams Acuity Eye Center Lahore Pakistan and the American Academy of Ophthalmology reiterate the importance of dilated eye exams in preventing vision loss. People with diabetes are at increased risk of developing serious eye diseases, yet most do not have sight-saving, annual eye exams,

A detached retina is a serious and sight-threatening event, occurs when the retina becomes separated from its underlying supportive tissue. The retina cannot function when these layers are detached. And unless the retina is reattached soon, permanent vision loss may result. Detached Retina Symptoms and Signs If you suddenly notice spots, floaters and flashes of

Colour blindness is not a form of blindness at all, but a deficiency in the way you see colour. With this vision problem, you have difficulty distinguishing certain colours, such as blue and yellow or red and green. Colour blindness (or, more accurately, colour vision deficiency) is an inherited condition that affects males more frequently

Macular dystrophy is a relatively rare eye condition that recently made headlines when Fox News commentator Glenn Beck announced he was going blind because of the disease. Linked to inherited genetic mutations, macular dystrophy causes deterioration of the inner back lining of the eye where the retina and light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors) are found. As the

Macular Holes It can be very scary if the vision in one of your eyes suddenly becomes blurry and distorted, as may happen with the development of a macular hole. To understand how macular holes occur, it’s important first to know a little about eye anatomy. The macula, where holes sometimes develop, is a very