visible part – optic disc (papillitis of the optic nerve) or the part of the nerve behind the eyeball (retrobulbar neuritis). Symptoms: Symptoms of optic neuritis are loss of vision […]
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visible part – optic disc (papillitis of the optic nerve) or the part of the nerve behind the eyeball (retrobulbar neuritis). Symptoms: Symptoms of optic neuritis are loss of vision […]
Read more »Orbital pseudo-tumor is a common name for idiopathic inflammatory processes in the orbit: myositis, vasculitis, pseudolimfoma and granulomatous inflammation. Symptoms: Unlike thyroid ophthalmopathy, proptosis is usually unilateral. Besides proptosis, […]
Read more »Results of the direct orbit infection are cellulitis, creation of orbital abscess, phlegmonosus inflammation of orbital fat tissue with gradual development of endophlebitis and periphlebitis. Causes: Inflammations of the orbit […]
Read more »Dacryoadenitis (lat. dacryoadenitis) is the inflammation of lachrymal glands. Causes: Acute dacryoadenitis (dakrioadenitis acuta) is mostly caused by viral or bacterial infections. Common causes include mumps, Epstein-Barr virus, and […]
Read more »Dacryocystitis is the inflammation of the nasolachrymal system, which occurs at children as blenorrhea neonatorum. Causes: Chronic dacryocystitis occurs at nasolachrymal system obstruction, when the bacteria in the nasolachrymal sac […]
Read more »Common in all patients with weakened immune systems (due to chemotherapy, immuno-suppression after organ transplantation, AIDS). It occurs in about 40% of patients with AIDS, it is mostly mutual. In […]
Read more »It is the inflammation of the retina caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Types: It can be congenital or acquired. Congenital toxoplasmosis is characterized by three Ks: calcifications in the […]
Read more »It is an inflammatory disease of one eye (“sympathized eye”) caused by sensitization of the eye to antigens released from the other eye (“sympathetic eye”) after perforate injury, operation or […]
Read more »The rear part of the uvea, chorioidea, is strongly related to the retina; so, inflammatory changes within one structure almost always pass on to the other. Therefore, in practice are […]
Read more »The inflammatory process is not diffuse but it is placed on some parts of the iris. The creation of giant cells and mononuclears is characteristic. Types: Iridocyclitis tuberculosa In early […]
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