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Vision Impairment

Vision Impairment: Introduction

Impaired vision: 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 conditions ... more about Impaired vision.

Vision Impairment: A condition that affects ones vision. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Vision Impairment is available below.

Symptoms of Vision Impairment

• Vision difficulties
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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Vision Impairment:

• Vision & Eye Health: Home Testing:
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Vision Impairment?

• Misdiagnosis of Vision Impairment
• Hidden causes of Vision Impairment (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

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Causes of Vision Impairment

• Chlorpheniramine
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• Basement membrane corneal dystrophy
• Quinidine
• Cinnarizine
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Disease Topics Related To Vision Impairment

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

• Cute visual dysfunction
• Transient visual loss
• Eye ischemia
• Transient visual obscuration
• TVO
• Papilledema
• Increased intracranial pressure
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Vision Impairment: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Vision & Eye: serious diseases often undiagnosed:
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Vision Impairment: Research Doctors & Specialists

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• Eye Health Specialists (Ophthalmology):
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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Vision Impairment

Medical research articles related to Vision Impairment include:

• Birth weight and gestational age characteristics of children with autism, including a comparison with other developmental disabilities
• Preventive services for children and adolescents.
• Community screening for visual impairment in the elderly
• Canadian Ophthalmological Society evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the periodic eye examination in adults in Canada
• Assessing the patient with low vision
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Vision Impairment: Animations

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Research about Vision Impairment

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Statistics for Vision Impairment

• Medical statistics for Vision Impairment
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Vision Impairment
• Death and Mortality statistics for Vision Impairment
• Society statistics for Vision Impairment

Vision Impairment: Broader Related Topics

• Eye conditions
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions
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Types of Vision Impairment

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Definitions of Vision Impairment:

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)

Impairment of the sense of sight - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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