Macular Degneration

If you were to gradually lose peripheral vision, you may may not notice for quite some time. Loss of central vision, however, will be quickly noticed. Loss of central vision is a result of damage to the macula. The progressive destruction of the macula is a disease known as macular degeneration and leads to the creation of a macular hole.

Malattia leventinese: An hereditary form of macular degeneration that results in progressive and irreversible visual loss. This disease is characterized by the appearance in early adulthood of small round white spots (drusen), particularly in the macula of the retina, which progress to form a honeycomb pattern.

For you bioscientist:

Malattia leventinese is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. The disease is due to a single mutation (Arg345Trp) in FBLN_3, the gene encoding the protein fibulin 3. (This gene is also called EFEMP1.)

strabismus

My interest in ophthalmology is mostly cultivated by my eye condition. The following video is of a strabismus and nystagmus surgery similar to the procedure done on my left eye.

In a recession procedure, your eye surgeon detaches the affected outside muscle (extraocular muscle) from the eye and reattaches it (resection) farther back on the eye to weaken the relative strength of the muscle if it is too strong. Looking at my anatomy book it seems that the muscle is the lateral rectus muscle (rectus meaning straight in Latin). The Rectus Fermoris as an example is one of the four quadriceps muscles of the human body. The Rectus Abdominis muscle (commonly known as “abs”) is a paired muscle running vertically across your abdominal region.