Medical Conditions – eye conditions

Eye conditions
  • Conditions related to the eye?

  • Any eye injury?

  • Acanthamoeba Keratitis (Medical Emergency)

  • Ataxia (awkward eye-hand co-ordination, retinitis pigmentosa)

  • Retinal Tear and Detachment (Medical Emergency)

  • Liver disease (Medical Emergency)

  • Age related degeneration

  • Acromegaly

  • Amyloidosis

  • Amenorrhea

  • Aniridia

  • Arcus Senilis

  • Astigmatism

  • Bell’s palsy (Facial palsy)

  • Blepharitis

  • Blocked tear ducts

  • Blood vessels in the eye that appear of bronze or grey colour?

  • Cataracts

  • Coloboma

  • Diabetic retinopathy

  • Diplopia (double vision)

  • Ectropion

  • Entropion (Trichiasis)

  • Episcleritis [inflammation in the episclera of the eye – the episclera is the tissue that lies over the sclera (the white of the eye)]

  • Erdheim-Chester disease

  • Erythema nodosum

  • Exposed to Ultra-violet light

  • Folic acid deficiency (anaemia)

  • Glaucoma

  • Hemianopia (where there is a loss of one half of your visual field – caused by damage to the brain, for example, by a stroke, trauma or tumour. The extent of field loss can vary and depends of the area of your brain that has been affected)

  • Hyperopia (Long-sightedness)

  • Hyperthyroidism (Grave’s Disease)

  • Hypothyroidism

  • Hyperoxaluria and Oxalosis

  • Iron deficiency

  • Klumpke’s palsy (Dejerine-Klumpke palsy)

  • Keratitis

  • Kerataconus

  • Krabbe disease

  • Lazy eye (amblyopia)

  • Leber’s disease

  • Lysosomal Lipid Storage and/or Lysosomal Lipid Metabolism Disorders and/or Mucopolysaccharides Metabolism Disorders (Mucopolysaccharidoses)

  • Lyme disease

  • Lupus

  • Macular degeneration

  • Meibomian cyst

  • Microphthalmia

  • Mitochondrial Myopathy and/or Encephalomyopathy

  • Mucormycosis (Medical Emergency)

  • Myopia (Short-sightedness)

  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

  • Nystagmus

  • Orbital Myositis (idiopathic orbital or Ocular myositis)

  • Polycythaemia vera

  • Presbyopia

  • Progeria disease

  • Pterygium and/or Pinguecula

  • Refsum Disease (Zellweger spectrum disorders)

  • Retinitis Pigmentosa (common inherited eye disorder noticeable between birth years until 40 years of age)

  • Retinoblastoma (eye cancer)

  • Sarcoidosis

  • Scratched eye

  • Squint (strabismus)

  • Surgery and/or laser treatment in last 6 months

  • Tardive dyskinesia

  • Thyroid eye disease or Graves’ ophthalmopathy

  • Tunnel vision [loss of peripheral (outer) vision with retention of central vision]

  • Eye Ulcer

  • Uveitis

  • Reduced visual acuity

     

  • Visual field defect

  • Wegener’s Granulomatosis

  • Wernicke encephalopathy

  • Wilson disease

  • Xanthelasmata (high cholesterol)

  • Reactive arthritis

  • Sickle cell disease

  • Visual snow (tiny flickering dots that resemble the noise of a detuned analogue television)

  • Vitamin B12 Deficiency (Anaemia)

  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum

  • Other:

Syndromes
  • Syndromes related to the eye?

  • Acrocephalopolysyndactyly disorders (Apert syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Chotzen syndrome, Carpenter syndrome)

  • Alport Syndrome

  • Alström syndrome

  • Angelman syndrome

  • Antiphospholipid/Hughes syndrome (Affect brain, respiratory, kidney, skin)

  • Behcet syndrome

  • Boerhaave Syndrome (Medical Emergency)

  • Coffin-Siris syndrome

  • Cogan’s syndrome

  • Cornelia de Lange syndrome

  • Corneal erosion syndrome

  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum (De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome) (blistering of skin)

  • DiGeorge syndrome

  • Dry Eye Syndrome (Keratoconjunctivitis)

  • Dubowitz syndrome (narrow or triangle-shaped face with a high or sloping forehead, eczema, vision problems)

  • Guillian-Barre Syndrome (Weak and numb arms , legs and body, usually after a chest infection) (Medical Emergency)

  • Gustavson syndrome

  • Horner syndrome

  • Joubert syndrome [lack of muscle control (ataxia), abnormal breathing patterns (hyperpnea), sleep apnoea, abnormal eye and tongue movements and low muscle tone]

  • Kabuki syndrome

  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome

  • Klippel-Feil syndrome

  • Korsakoff Syndrome

  • Marfan syndrome

  • Moebius Syndrome

  • Nail Patella syndrome [Lester’s sign- abnormally dark (hyperpigmented) and “cloverleaf” shape discoloration around the inner margin (pupillary margin) of the coloured portion of the eyes]

  • Nelson syndrome – [one to four years following the surgical removal of the adrenal glands (bilateral adrenalectomy)]

  • Parinaud Syndrome

  • Prader-Willi syndrome

  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome

  • Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome

  • Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome/Stuve-Wiedemann Syndrome

  • Serotonin Syndrome

  • Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome

  • Sotos syndrome

  • Toxic Shock Syndrome (occur after an infection and/or use of tampons)

  • Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome

  • Usher syndrome (rare genetic disease that affects both hearing and vision)

  • Wallenberg syndrome

  • Wolfram syndrome

  • Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome

  • Wyburn-Mason syndrome [eyes bulge forward (proptosis), drooping of the upper eyelid (blepharoptosis), difficulty moving the eyes (ocular motility disorders)]

  • Other: