An 80-year-old woman was transferred from an outside hospital to the emergency department at Tufts Medical Center for ophthalmological evaluation around midnight. In a matter of hours, she had ...

The prevalence of bilateral low vision and blindness among a large population of Singaporean Malay adults appears lower when compared with the frequencies found in other Asian studies, according to a ...

Bilaterally blind patients who had undergone optical penetrating keratoplasty (PK) were evaluated on optical and refractive parameters and presence of complications if any. The results at 3 months, 6 ...

In conclusion, we found that the number of patients with bilateral blindness from glaucoma was greatly underestimated when the evaluation was based solely on VA testing. The number of bilaterally ...

What is corneal blindness and how many people does it affect? Corneal blindness is estimated to be the second most prevalent cause of blindness in many less developed countries. Globally, bilateral ...

PHAN: Brunson was born with bilateral retinal dysplasia, and is one of three blind students coming to UCLA this year. She does not, however, want to viewed as limited by her blindness. BRUNSON: I try ...

Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss. Now, researchers have challenged that theory by studying a unique ...

Retinoblastoma is a rare eye cancer that most commonly occurs in infants. It can affect one or both eyes. Without treatment, this condition may lead to vision loss and blindness. Retinoblastoma begins ...