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Treatment for glaucoma
Damaged fibers of the optic nerve cannot be substituted in any way. Therefore at the moment glaucoma cannot be treated and the only thing we can do is to slow down or stop its further progress. The...
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Strabismus - Squint
Squint, or strabismus as a technical term, is a visual disorder when cooperation between both eyes is disrupted. In such a case each eye points in a different direction. In strabismus if one eye looks...
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Keratoconus treatment
Keratoconus is the state when the cornea, which has usually spherical shape, is conically convex and irregularly refractive. This results in worse vision. This eye disease is usually bilateral and the...
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Cataract surgery procedure
Nowadays there are not any medications or eye drops which could eliminate cataract and improve vision. A surgical procedure is the only option for restoring vision. In this type of procedure opaque...
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Diabetic retinopathy
Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) is a serious disease which affects various organs of the human body. Eyes are also one of them. The consequences of diabetes for sight can be very serious and in the most...
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Causes of myopia
There are many old and new theories which try to explain the causes of shortsightedness (myopia). In spite of significant scientific effort even now we are not hundred percent sure what is the exact...
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Inflammations of the eye
Eye inflammations are a very broad subject and it is not possible to describe them in detail in one article. Therefore in this article we will describe them very briefly and gradually we will add more...
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LASIK procedure - The course of LASIK eye surgery
LASIK eye surgery is performed in two phases under strict sterile conditions. The laser eye surgery is performed under ambulatory conditions. Before the surgery itself mydriatics are applied to the...
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Potential operative and postoperative complications in LASIK surgery
No surgical procedure is always one hundred percent successful and the same stands for LASIK eye surgery during which various complications can occur. LASIK method carries with it higher risk of...
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What is LASIK?
The method of cutting the cornea with diamond knives has been used from 1970. LASIK method (laser in situ Keratomileusis), which was developed by professor Pallikaris in Crete, is one of many other...
View ArticleUV radiation
Ultraviolet rays are the component of sunlight and is divided into UV-A and UV-B and UV-C radiation. UVA rays tan skin and is due to premature skin aging. UV-B rays cause sunburn and are often...
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Presbyopia definition
Presbyopia is a disorder caused by physiological aging of the intraocular lens. The eye lens gradually loses its plasticity and elasticity, its core gets larger and denser, its lens fibers sclerotize,...
View ArticleWhy are tears important?
One of the basic conditions of normal eye function is good wetting of the surface of the eye with tears. There is not even in the accumulation of the tears or tears running down their face. Tears can...
View ArticleWhat is dry eye syndrome?
Problem of dry eyes is when the eye does not produce tears correctly and in sufficient quantities, or when the tears do not have the correct consistency and evaporate very quickly. This is a problem...
View ArticleCauses of dry eyes
Set of causes of dry eye syndrome is complex, eye disease affects not only the ocular surface, but is often accompanied by systemic disease. An important role of psychosomatic aspects (emotional...
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Astigmatism definition
Astigmatism is a common type of refractive error. It is a condition in which the human eye does not focus light evenly onto the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. Astigmatism in...
View ArticleBest contact lenses for dry eyes
Many people who need to correct vision problems choose to wear contact lenses instead of eyeglasses, either for cosmetic reasons or comfort issues. Many types or forms of contact lenses come with their...
View ArticleWhat is monovision?
When it becomes a problem with presbyopia, and if the patient has good binocular vision, it is possible to offer him in one eye corrected for distance and the other eye corrected for near. This method...
View ArticleWays of monovision method?
The method monovision is way of presbyopia correction, when is corrected differently each eye. One is corrected for distance and one for near. This correction can be done in three different ways. The...
View ArticleDisadvantages of monovision
Ways of presbyopia correction using monovision has certain advantages, but of course also has many disadvantages and limitations. It could cause in certain activities serious problem, therefore...
View ArticleContact lenses for presbyopia
The current generation of active living people over the age of 40-45 years - the so-called "baby boomers" - is very large group of populations. These people are at an age when their economic situation...
View ArticleCan contact lenses correct presbyopia?
Many presbyopic patients, especially those who are not accustomed to wearing eyeglasses, are interested in contact lens correction of their refractive error. There are a variety of ways to correct...
View ArticleMyopia in children and adults
Nearsightedness (myopia) is the most common reffractive error, when rays of light entering the eye from a distance brake in front of the retina and blurred vision is creating on the retina. This...
View ArticleWhat is hypermetropia
Hyperopia (farsightedness, hypermetropia) is a refractive disorder, when light rays enter the eye, which is in accommodative composure. Light rays are refracted by an optical system and their focal...
View ArticleDividing of hyperopia
Hyperopia (farsightedness - hypermetropia) can be divided to axial or systemic according to the cause of the creation, ergo origin or in term of a connection to emmetropia. Read more...
View ArticleMyopia and its extension
Nearsightedness (myopia) is variously extended in the world, but there are considerable differences between ethnic and racial groups because hereditary factors play the central role. In the Western...
View ArticleAnatomy of the human eye
The sight is our most important sense, which we receive up to 80% of information from the extermal environment through. The humam eye is the organ, which provides the vision itself. It is a very...
View ArticleThe Iris
The iris is the most forwardly protuberant part of the middle layer of the eye wall. It has a shape of annulus with a centrally located hole called a pupil. The outer edge of the iris changes into an...
View ArticleGlaucoma eye disease - basic facts
Glaucoma is a chronical eye disease of the ocular nerve, that in the case of a late diagnosis and inadequate treatment leads to severe eye damage and blindness. In the world, there is more than 70...
View ArticleEye color
Brown, blue and green, these are the most common colors of our eyes. Besides them, there is a variety of other colors that are a combination of colors mentioned above. Many people are born with...
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