• Thumbnail for Corneal opacity
    conditions including corneal edema, scars, and macular corneal dystrophy is clinically manifested as corneal opacity. The term corneal blindness is commonly...
    24 KB (2,583 words) - 05:29, 19 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Macular corneal dystrophy
    Macular corneal dystrophy, also known as Fehr corneal dystrophy, is a rare pathological condition affecting the stroma of cornea first described by Arthur...
    7 KB (700 words) - 05:52, 18 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Corneal dystrophy
    [citation needed] Corneal stromal dystrophiesMacular corneal dystrophy is manifested by a progressive dense cloudiness of the entire corneal stroma that...
    15 KB (1,599 words) - 15:32, 14 December 2024
  • Macular dystrophy may refer to any of these eye diseases: Macular corneal dystrophy, a rare pathological condition Macular degeneration, or age-related...
    293 bytes (65 words) - 07:48, 29 December 2019
  • Thumbnail for Fuchs' dystrophy
    Fuchs dystrophy, also referred to as Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) and Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED), is a slowly progressing corneal dystrophy...
    16 KB (1,734 words) - 06:59, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Macular degeneration
    Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition which may result in blurred or no vision in...
    91 KB (9,880 words) - 23:19, 2 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hypotrichosis with juvenile macular dystrophy
    sparse hair growth (hypotrichosis) from birth and progressive macular corneal dystrophy. Hair growth on the head is noticeably less full than normal,...
    9 KB (976 words) - 05:26, 1 December 2023
  • thought to help maintain optimal corneal hydration; genetic disruption of its synthesis leads to the macular corneal dystrophy. According to one study, average...
    12 KB (1,357 words) - 16:59, 16 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Keratan sulfate
    fibroblasts in corneal fibrosis". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (46): 45629–37. doi:10.1074/jbc.M303292200. PMC 2877919. PMID 12933807. Macular dystrophy, corneal, 1[dead...
    9 KB (1,110 words) - 17:07, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Vitelliform macular dystrophy
    Vitelliform macular dystrophy is an irregular autosomal dominant eye disorder which can cause progressive vision loss. This disorder affects the retina...
    10 KB (1,150 words) - 02:06, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Spastic ataxia-corneal dystrophy syndrome
    disease known as corneal-cerebellar syndrome that had been found in 1985. Symptoms include spastic ataxia, cataracts, macular corneal dystrophy and nonaxial...
    3 KB (215 words) - 14:47, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Corneal-cerebellar syndrome
    Behbehani K (1986). "Autosomally inherited recessive spastic ataxia, macular corneal dystrophy, congenital cataracts, myopia and vertically oval temporally tilted...
    4 KB (302 words) - 13:44, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stroma of cornea
    disorganised lamellae, leading to thinned and conical-shaped cornea Macular corneal dystrophy, associated with the loss of keratan sulfate Oyster, CW (1999)...
    7 KB (768 words) - 07:34, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Glycosaminoglycan
    disease states such as macular corneal dystrophy, in which GAGs levels such as KS are altered, loss of hydration within the corneal stroma is believed to...
    23 KB (2,639 words) - 01:11, 14 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Contact lens
    dry eyes, corneal abrasions and erosion, keratitis, corneal edema, descemetocele, corneal ectasia, Mooren's ulcer, anterior corneal dystrophy, and neurotrophic...
    90 KB (10,811 words) - 18:11, 4 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Astigmatism
    with corneal astigmatism. A follow-up study in 2013 on the European population, however, found no variant significantly associated with corneal astigmatism...
    40 KB (4,315 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Corneal ulcer
    infections. Other eye conditions can cause corneal ulcers, such as entropion, distichiasis, corneal dystrophy, and keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye)...
    13 KB (1,558 words) - 03:52, 5 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Keratoconus
    Visual Sciences Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine "Corneal Dystrophies (including Keratoconus)". Eye Info. RNIB. Archived from the original...
    68 KB (7,422 words) - 17:07, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Glaucoma
    decreased vision. Acute angle-closure glaucoma may further present with corneal edema, engorged conjunctival vessels, and a fixed and dilated pupil on...
    89 KB (9,849 words) - 03:36, 28 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Diabetic retinopathy
    guidelines separately categorize macular edema into two categories: "macular edema apparently absent" and "macular edema apparently present." The latter...
    54 KB (5,976 words) - 23:17, 2 August 2025
  • pigment epithelium in patients with age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's macular dystrophy: Follow-up of two open-label phase 1/2 studies"...
    10 KB (851 words) - 17:26, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Macular edema
    Macular edema occurs when fluid and protein deposits collect on or under the macula of the eye (a yellow central area of the retina) and causes it to...
    16 KB (1,605 words) - 23:13, 2 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for CHST6
    production of keratan sulfate. Mutations in the gene lead to macular corneal dystrophy. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000183196 – Ensembl, May 2017...
    7 KB (912 words) - 22:31, 5 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Myopia
    and eye strain. Severe myopia is associated with an increased risk of macular degeneration, retinal detachment, cataracts, and glaucoma. Myopia results...
    95 KB (10,154 words) - 18:45, 29 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Color blindness
    of degenerative diseases of the eye, such as cataract and age-related macular degeneration, and as part of the retinal damage caused by diabetes. Vitamin...
    100 KB (10,480 words) - 09:18, 28 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Aniridia
    condition affecting multiple parts of the eye, with macular and optic nerve hypoplasia, cataract, and corneal changes. Vision may be severely compromised and...
    9 KB (904 words) - 05:06, 19 July 2025
  • Thygeson's superficial punctate keratopathy (H16.4) Corneal neovascularization (H18.5) Fuchs' dystrophy — cloudy morning vision (H18.6) Keratoconus — degenerative...
    16 KB (1,672 words) - 07:27, 17 June 2025
  • Cone dystrophy Congenital abnormalities of the eye Viral conjunctivitis Corneal abrasion Corneal dystrophy Corneal ulcer Disruption of the corneal epithelium...
    19 KB (1,821 words) - 18:17, 16 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Corneal neovascularization
    Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is the in-growth of new blood vessels from the pericorneal plexus into avascular corneal tissue as a result of oxygen...
    14 KB (1,529 words) - 10:50, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Red eye (medicine)
    Ciliary flush (circumcorneal injection) Corneal abnormalities including edema or opacities ("corneal haze") Corneal staining Pupil abormalities including...
    14 KB (1,505 words) - 14:56, 26 March 2025