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Blindness: Introduction

Blindness: Any type of vision loss (e.g. blindness, blurred vision, double vision, etc.) is a symptom of great concern. Many of the causes are very serious medical ... more about Blindness.

Blindness: The inability to see out of the eyes. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Blindness is available below.

Symptoms of Blindness

• Vision loss
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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Blindness:

• Vision & Eye Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Eye Tests
  • Home Vision Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Blindness?

• Misdiagnosis of Blindness
• Failure to diagnose Blindness
• Hidden causes of Blindness (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Blindness

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Blindness: Deaths

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Types of Blindness

• Night blindness
• more types...»

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Blindness: Complications

Read more about complications of Blindness.

Causes of Blindness

• Congenital blindness (see Blindness)
• Retinitis pigmentosa
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Eye injury
• Raised intracranial pressure
• more causes...»

See full list of 364 causes of Blindness

More information about causes of Blindness:

• Underlying causes of Blindness
• Blindness as a complication caused by other conditions
• Blindness as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Blindness
• Cause statistics for Blindness

Disease Topics Related To Blindness

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Blindness:

• Sudden vision loss
• Acute visual dysfunction
• Transient visual loss
• Eye ischemia
• Transient visual obscuration
• TVO
• Papilledema
• more related diseases...»

Blindness: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Vision & Eye: serious diseases often undiagnosed:
  • Glaucoma -- Undiagnosed
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Undiagnosed
  • Cataract -- Undiagnosed
  • Diabetic Retinopathy -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Blindness: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Eye Health Specialists (Ophthalmology):
  • Ophthalmology (Eye Specialist)
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Blindness: Animations

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Research about Blindness

Visit our research pages for current research about Blindness treatments.

Clinical Trials for Blindness

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Blindness include:

• Brain Plasticity of Verbal Memory in the Blind - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Enhanced Tactile Memory in the Blind - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Use of "Smart Wheelchairs" to Provide Independent Mobility to Visual and Mobility Impairments - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Evaluation of Eye Movement Tracking Systems for Visual Rehabilitation - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• A Clinical Trial of Povidone-Iodine for the Treatment of Bacterial Corneal Ulcers - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Povidone-Iodine
• more trials...»

See full list of 23 Clinical Trials for Blindness

Prevention of Blindness

Prevention information for Blindness has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Blindness.

• Vitamin A - possibly used for related vitamin A deficiency
• more preventions...»

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Statistics for Blindness

• Medical statistics for Blindness
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Blindness
• Death and Mortality statistics for Blindness
• Society statistics for Blindness

Blindness: Broader Related Topics

• Eye conditions
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions
• more types...»

Types of Blindness

Blindness Message Boards

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User Interactive Forums

Read about other experiences, ask a question about Blindness, or answer someone else's question, on our message boards:

• I can not get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for this?
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Definitions of Blindness:

Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions. Visual disability refers to inability of the individual to perform specific visual tasks, such as reading, writing, orientation, or traveling unaided. (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132) - (Source - Diseases Database)

Lack of sight - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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