Pediatric uveitic glaucoma is optic-nerve damage from long-lasting or repeated eye inflammation in a child, often with high eye pressure (IOP). The ...
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Penetrating keratoplasty, often called PK or full-thickness corneal transplant, is an eye surgery where a surgeon removes a circular piece of the patient’s ...
Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-Associated Disease (MOGAD) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. “Autoimmune” means the immune ...
Pediatric low vision means a child cannot see well enough to do normal daily activities even when they use the best glasses or contact lenses that can be found ...
Keratoconus is an eye condition where the clear front window of the eye (the cornea) slowly becomes thinner and changes shape. Instead of being smoothly curved ...
Pattern strabismus means the eye misalignment is not the same in all up-and-down positions of gaze. In plain words, the amount of turning in or turning out ...
Pattern dystrophies are inherited eye conditions that affect the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) — the thin support layer under your light-sensing cells ...
Paton’s lines are small, curved lines that you can see around the edge of the optic disc when the optic disc is swollen. The optic disc is the round area at ...
Myopic degeneration means the eye has become so long from front to back that the delicate tissues at the back of the eye start to stretch, thin, and break ...
Posterior staphyloma is a bulging “out-pouching” of the back wall of the eye because the white coat of the eye (the sclera) becomes thin and stretches, usually ...
Pathologic myopia is short-sightedness that has gone beyond just needing stronger glasses. In this condition, the back part of the eye (the retina, the layer ...
The pars plana is a smooth, flat ring of tissue that sits just behind the colored part of the eye (the iris) and just in front of the retina. It is part of the ...
Parry–Romberg syndrome is a rare condition where one side of the face slowly becomes thinner and smaller over time. The thinning usually starts with the fat ...
Parkinson’s disease is a brain condition where special nerve cells that make a chemical called dopamine slowly die in a deep area of the brain called the ...
Parinaud syndrome (also called dorsal midbrain syndrome) is a brain problem that affects how the eyes move and how the pupils react to light. It happens when ...
Parinaud Oculoglandular Syndrome (often shortened to POGS) is an eye infection that usually affects just one eye. It causes a special kind of conjunctivitis ...
Paradoxical air embolism happens when tiny air bubbles that normally enter the veins (the “return” side of your circulation) find an abnormal shortcut to the ...
Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy, or PAMM, is a problem in the middle layer of the retina (the light-sensing tissue at the back of the eye). On modern ...
Papillorenal Syndrome (PRS) (also called Renal-Coloboma Syndrome or PAX2-related disorder) is a rare genetic condition that mainly affects the kidneys and the ...
Papillophlebitis is a rare eye problem where the optic nerve head looks swollen and the retinal veins look big and twisty, usually in one eye of a young, ...
