Current treatments for glaucoma primarily focus on lowering eye pressure through prescription eye drops or medicine, laser therapies or surgery. Glaucoma often presents no symptoms, leading to its development unnoticed [...]
Inherited retinal diseases are rare conditions which, left untreated, can lead to permanent vision loss or blindness. Today at AEVR's Congressional Briefing we will focus on these less well-known, but [...]
Mirjeta Abazaga of Upstate optometrist Mirjeta Abazaga emphasizes that eyes provide many health warning signs affecting the entire body, such as eye problems linked to diabetes, high cholesterol and an [...]
Your eye doctor not only takes great care in maintaining your vision, but can also detect early warning signs of chronic diseases like diabetes and high cholesterol. Clogged arteries, for [...]
Healthy eyes contain fluid that flows over the front of their eye and drains away to make way for fresh fluid to enter. If too little drains away, your eye [...]
Drugs may help lower eye pressure and stave off vision loss due to glaucoma. Prostaglandin analogues - medications which increase fluid drainage to decrease eye pressure - are usually the [...]
Eye arteries provide insight into your overall health, including cholesterol levels. Yellow fatty deposits known as xanthelasma or drusen indicate high cholesterol levels and increase your risk for retinal vein [...]
Doctors conducting dilated eye exams can directly observe blood vessels in the retina (the light-sensitive structure at the back of the eye). High blood pressure damages these small blood vessels [...]
High blood pressure (hypertension) poses not only serious danger to your cardiovascular system but can also have disastrous repercussions for the eyes. Hypertensive retinopathy refers to this damage that results [...]
Cataract surgery is an efficient and safe procedure that restores clear vision for people suffering from cataracts. For optimal healing after the procedure, however, it is vitally important that patients [...]
