DISEASE

Message of common value

METAMORPHOSIS
(=curved lines)

THIS MAY INDICATE AGE
RELATED MACULA
DEGENERATION

DAILIES: SAY IT WITH
YOUR EYES!

HOLIDAYS = LENSES

LENSES....
SO EASY !

YOU ONLY HAVE 2 EYES:

CHECK YEARLY !

SEE CLEARLY !

WHAT IS CATARACT?

CLOUDING OF THE LENS

ARE THERE...
DISCREET MAGNIFIERS?

YES, SUCH AS EASYPOCKET

SHOW YOUR EYES ...
WITH LENSES !!!

WHY DO YOU REGULAR NEED
EYE EXAMINATION WHEN YOU
HAVE GLAUCOMA?

YOU DON'T FEEL ANYTHING
BUT YOUR EYE CAN GET BLIND
SLOWLY
WHEN THE EYE PRESSURE
IS TO HIGH!

DISEASE » RETINA : macula / diabetes / thrombosis / detachment / premature / alimentation ... »

SEROSA

serous macular detachment because of stress

SEROSA CENTRALIS

ANOMALY

This condition is called central serous choroidopathy.
It is characterized by a bullous augmentation in the central part of the retina.
This grows following a leak in the pigment epithelium leaf (= insulating membrane under the retina).

CONSEQUENCE

The patient is more farsighted ("secondary hypermetropisation") and experiencing deformation (=" metamorphosis ") in the central part of the retina.

CAUSE

This disease is known because it occur in relatively young persons (20-50 years, mostly male) with a stressful occupation. Cortisone therapy can also trigger serosa. Some patients have a weak pigment epitelium leaf and can have frequenty a stroke.This is called DRPE: "diffuse pigment epiteliopathy".

TREATMENT

After several weeks, the leak usually disappear spontaneously and reduces the subretinal fluid. Thus, the patient is free of symptoms. So first we consider the injury a few weeks to conservative. In patients where spontaneous recovery is delayed (more than 6 weeks) the doctor can consider a lasercoagulation of the leaking point, when the location isn't too close to the fovea. This limits the duration of the stroke to 1 to 2 months, where normally there's 3 to 4 months duration. 90% of the patients recuperate to 6 / 10 or better.

LATER DEVELOPMENTS

Usually it involves a single disease. After a few months or years the central serous choroidopathie can relapse (estimated at 43%! - In 80% of the cases in the same eye), especially in patients where the pigment epitelium leaf shows elsewhere already defects.

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