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Retinal Disorders

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Summary

The retina is a layer of tissue in the back of your eye that senses light and sends images to your brain. In the center of this nerve tissue is the macula. It provides the sharp, central vision needed for reading, driving and seeing fine detail.

Retinal disorders affect this vital tissue. They can affect your vision, and some can be serious enough to cause blindness. Examples are:

  • Macular degeneration - a disease that destroys your sharp, central vision
  • Diabetic eye disease
  • Retinal detachment - a medical emergency, when the retina is pulled away from the back of the eye
  • Retinoblastoma - cancer of the retina. It is most common in young children.
  • Macular pucker - scar tissue on the macula
  • Macular hole - a small break in the macula that usually happens to people over 60
  • Floaters - cobwebs or specks in your field of vision

NIH: National Eye Institute

Symptoms

  • Eye Symptoms (American Academy of Ophthalmology) Also in Spanish

Diagnosis and Tests

  • What Are Dilating Eye Drops? (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)

Related Issues

  • What Is Macular Edema? Video (American Academy of Ophthalmology) Also in Spanish

Specifics

  • Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (Foundation Fighting Blindness)
  • Bietti's Crystalline Dystrophy From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • Cancers Affecting the Retina (Merck & Co., Inc.) Also in Spanish
  • Choroideremia (Foundation Fighting Blindness)
  • Coats' Disease (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)
  • Diabetic Retinopathy From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • Facts about Floaters From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • Leber Congenital Amaurosis (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)
  • Macular Hole From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • Macular Pucker From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) Also in Spanish
  • Retinitis Pigmentosa (Foundation Fighting Blindness)
  • Vitreous Detachment From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • What Is Central Serous Chorioretinopathy? (American Academy of Ophthalmology) Also in Spanish

Genetics

  • Autosomal Recessive Inheritance From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)
  • Bardet-Biedl syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Bietti crystalline dystrophy: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Choroideremia: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Coats plus syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Cone-rod dystrophy: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Fundus albipunctatus: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Knobloch syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Leber congenital amaurosis: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Mainzer-Saldino syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Refsum disease: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Retinal arterial macroaneurysm with supravalvular pulmonic stenosis: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Retinitis pigmentosa: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Senior-Løken syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Stargardt macular degeneration: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • TRNT1 deficiency: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Vitelliform macular dystrophy: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • Wagner syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)
  • X-linked juvenile retinoschisis: MedlinePlus Genetics From the National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine)

Images

  • Flashes and Floaters (VisualDX)

Videos and Tutorials

  • Retina Video (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

Statistics and Research

  • Eye Health Data and Statistics From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) Also in Spanish
  • Helping the Retina Regenerate From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)

Clinical Trials

  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Retinal Diseases From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

  • Article: Ensemble-based eye disease detection system utilizing fundus and vascular structures.
  • Article: Characterizing Inner Retinal Changes in End-Stage Inherited Retinal Diseases That Might...
  • Article: Exploring standard and low luminance visual acuity and the Moorfields Acuity...
  • Retinal Disorders -- see more articles

Reference Desk

  • How the Eyes Work From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) Also in Spanish

Find an Expert

  • Find an Ophthalmologist (American Academy of Ophthalmology) Also in Spanish
  • Finding an Eye Doctor From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)

Children

  • Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) From the National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute)

Patient Handouts

  • Amaurosis fugax (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Central serous choroidopathy (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Electroretinography (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Fluorescein angiography (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • High blood pressure and eye disease (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Home vision tests (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Intravitreal injection (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Retinal artery occlusion (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • Retinal vein occlusion (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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Retinal Disorders

MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

  • Amaurosis fugax
  • Central serous choroidopathy
  • Electroretinography
  • Fluorescein angiography
  • High blood pressure and eye disease
  • Home vision tests
  • Intravitreal injection
  • Ophthalmoscopy
  • Retina
  • Retinal artery occlusion
  • Retinal detachment repair - series
  • Retinal vein occlusion
  • Retinitis pigmentosa
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Slit-lamp exam
  • Standard eye exam

Related Health Topics

  • Diabetic Eye Problems
  • Eye Diseases
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Usher Syndrome

National Institutes of Health

The primary NIH organization for research on Retinal Disorders is the National Eye Institute

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