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ironically, we were encouraged by the clinic staff to not book this eye exam considering how positive the results were from our unexpected exam less than two months ago, unless - of course - we suspected that something was wrong. and we almost did skip it, since neither of us has spent much time thinking about odin's eyes since our opthamalogic emergency that wasn't.
and while it's certainly not a dire emergency of the life threatening sort, today we learned that we might not have fully escaped the lingering effects of retinopathy of prematurity; it seems that in two months odin's eyesight has gone from slight farsightedness which is normal for an infant to slight nearsightedness which is not. for the numerically inclined, he's gone from a +2 on the farsighted scale to a -1.25 on the nearsighted index, which is obviously a shift of 3 units in a very short period of time.
will his sight shift another 3 units in the "wrong" direction, indicating legal blindness in another 60 days? statistics indicate that it's not highly likely, but it's not unlikely enough to be considered improbable. will his eyes spontaneously go back to "normal"? almost certainly not. unfortunately, most often it's a one way trip to progressively worsening nearsightedness in cases such as odin's.
in reality, all we can do is wait and, er, see what happens since nobody can predict how quickly, or even if, his eyesight will continue to deteriorate. and, in an almost amusing twist, we've been given the worse possible advice to give parents with our temperment - watch him closely for "abnormal" signs. if you watch any baby closely enough for long enough, you can convince yourself that everything is abnormal.
in any case, and in all seriousness, we're supposed to stay particularly attuned to whether or not he's crossing his eyes since that means that one eye is getting progressively worse at a faster rate than the other eye. and if one eye is worse than another, the brain can quickly decide to shut down the signals from the "bad" eye which is not something you want in a brain that's forming new neuronal connections. so, as long as both eyes are equally nearsighted then odin could measure an astonishing -8 or -9 before glasses or corrective measures would be considered because, well, it's almost impossible to keep glasses on a 10 month old. but, if the eyes are differentially affected, then we would probably need to start looking at different therapeutic options to help prevent the brain from shutting things down.
that's right. it's possible that we could have the pleasure of trying to figure out how to keep an eye patch on an infant. aaarrrrggggghh, matey!
but we'll cross that bridge, or plank, when we and if we get there. and for now, we'll be happy to simply watch odin investigate the plastic wrap on his exam chair and marvel at how quickly the chair appears to be shrinking between visits.
A diabetic retinopathy screening being analyzed by staff including Carol Laurent (mustard outfit, glasses, cropped hair) - community health aid and grader/screener (certified) at Castries Wellness Centre, in Castries, St. Lucia on Feb 25, 2019. The centre, supported by the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust in coordination with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, launched the Diabetic Retinopathy Program in 2018 to combat the most common cause of sight loss in the region. The program offers screening, diet counseling, and laser therapy to patients who are found to have deteriorating eye sight as a result of the disease. Health experts estimate that one in every 4 adults in the Caribbean suffer from the illness. (Photo by Ashley Gilbertson / VII Photo)
Credit: David Yorston
Published in: RSOC Vol. 13 No. 17 2016. Published online 31 March 2017 cehjournal.org/sante-oculaire-communautaire/
and by normal, of course, i mean helping mamma and poppi in the garden by digging in the dirt :-)
as you might know if you've been following the updates we got approval for odin to see a pediatric retinal specialist in royal oak michigan. odin has seen the doctor before soon after he left the nicu. anthony (tony) capone is world renowned in his own right and works in the same practice as michael t. trese who is the man when it comes to pediatric retinal issues and pediatric complications from retinopathy of prematurity. so, we couldn't be seeing more capable doctors. doctor capone has even been gracious enough to give me free advice since the onset of odin's vitrous hemorrhage which obviously has been very, very, very, very(!) appreciated and stands in stark contrast to the communication we've received from the doctors at the mayo clinic.
odin is scheduled for an exam under anesthesia on july 23rd at which time dr. capone will look at every inch of odin's retina. it's entirely possible that he'll get laser surgery (photocoagulation) to repair any retinal holes as well as a vitrectomy to prevent his vitreous, the eye's clear internal jelly, from tugging on his retina which presumably caused the hemorrhage.
Photo: © Peter Blows
Published in RSOC Vol. 13 No. 17 2016. Published online 31 March 2017 cehjournal.org/sante-oculaire-communautaire/
I went to my annual retina specialist appointment today. I got the all clear. He wants to move my appointments to once every 6 months, but I'm not sure if I'll actually keep up with that. It's hard enough to make it there once a year!
I have never worn glasses or contacts of any kind (except as fashion accessories hee hee ) but go to the eye doctor once a year to get checked for diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that leads to blindness. Keeping my blood sugars in range can help delay or avoid this.
There is no cure for Type 1 diabetes... Yet.
Entry in category 4. ©Peter Maloca; See also bit.ly/snsf_comp_copy
A 3D volume stack (obtained by non-invasive Optical Coherence Tomography ; OCT) was freed from speckle-noise using a recently developed three-dimensional vector-field denoiser from the University of Basel (Gyger-Maloca-Cattin filter). The choroidal vessels were extracted and a 3D mesh was produced. Artificial lights and textures were added and a flight-through programmed. Swept-Source OCT (SSOCT) using coherent laser light source of 1050 nanometer, stack of 256 cross-sectional scans, volume size 9x12 millimeter. Vertical diameter 100 micrometer. Length of exploring pathway in this choroid is about 2000 mircometer.
((The upload yesterday was not possible as this website had no contact up to midnight! I tried a hundred times)) Optical Coherence tomography is a new an non-invasive imaging technology in ophthalmology that is used to diagnose and monitor retinal diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, multiple sclerosis or tumors of the eye or brain. Measurements can be repeated as there is no harmul side-effect to the patient. Previously, the choroid was very difficult to assess as the speckle-noise degrades the image quality. Removing the speckle noise from the images depicts an important step futzher in imaging and give a new view into the three-dimensional architecture of the retinal vessels. ¦ Image#4_39
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HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Optical coherence tomography scan of my left retina, 4 months after the previous scan. This shows complete healing of the central serous retinopathy which was affecting my eyesight earlier. This is a completely normal retinal scan - the indent in the surface is the fovea.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Photo and Artwork By Chez
Self Portrait :
"I would like to capture whats in the light before it gets too dark "
Diabetic Retinopathy causes hemorrhaging, floaters & blurred vision. Leading to detachment of the retina....
This is slowed down with Laser treatment which its self has left me with poor night vision and diminishing peripheral vision.
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HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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The global optical coherence tomography market is segmented into application such as ophthalmology, dermatology, oncology, cardiovascular, dentistry and cancer detection. Among these segments, ophthalmology segment is expected to occupy the top position in overall optical coherence tomography market. Further, the growth of this segment is attributed to various factors such as increasing number of patients affected with eyes disorders such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, macular edema and others. Apart from this, dermatology segment mask an outstanding CAGR in near future owing to growing skin disorders and continuous technological advancement in the field of optical coherence tomography.
Global optical coherence tomography market is expected to register a 10.9% CAGR over the forecast period. Moreover, the global optical coherence tomography market is anticipated to account for exponential revenue of USD 1.8 Billion during the forecast period i.e. 2017-2024. Moreover, increasing government spending on the development of healthcare industry on the back of positive GDP figure is expected to propel the growth of optical coherence tomography market.
a micropreemie mom once told us to never let them know that they 'll be going home soon because they'll always find a way to prove you wrong. "don't tell them until they're strapped into the car seat." she said.
"it's the curse of the nicu."
today, after days of starting to believe that he was coming home soon, we discovered that he has developed a severe eye disease, retinopathy of prematurity, which will necessitate him getting trasnferred to a more specialized facility for eye surgery.
the eye surgeon told us to not expect him to come home for about 6 more weeks.
he's back on the nasal cannula and supplemental oxygen because it can help slow the progression of the disease before surgery.
if not surgically repaired the disease can lead to blindness.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Photo Title: Slit lamp examination
Submitted by: Vishnu kesh Tripathi
Category: EVERYONE COUNTS
Country: India
Organization: School of optometry Sitapur eye hospital Sitapur
Photo Caption: A slit lamp exam can help diagnose the following conditions: macular degeneration, a chronic condition affecting the part of the eye that is responsible for central vision. detached retina, a condition when the retina, which is an important layer of tissue at the back of the eye, becomes detached from its base.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Professional
Country where the photo was taken: India
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer: Vishnu kesh Tripathi
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Submitted by: Dr Sabin Sahu
Country: Nepal
Organisation: Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital, Lahan
Category: Professional
Caption: Screening a patient in a free diabetic retinopathy screening camp!
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Photo uploaded from the #StrongerTogether Photo Competition website (photocomp.iapb.org)
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Have just been for my first Diabetic Retinopathy photos.
For the procedure you have drops put in your eyes to dilate your pupils (this shot was taken about two hours later), and then images of your retina are taken to screen for changes in the eye.
Although not an uncomfortable procedure in itself, the hours after were not the most pleasant. Most noticeable in the nausea and sensitivity to light (unsurprisingly).
Even now. with my screen brightness turned down to zero, I am struggling to look at whites on the screen; so if the colours in the image are off I do apologise, but trying to use PS when you're working by numbers is a right royal pain!
If you don't check your blood sugar regularly, then you won't know if you are staying in range, which can lead to neuropathy, retinopathy, heart problems, and other nasty issues.
Staying in control can be a delicate balance. As strong or as fragile as a house of cards.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Always fascinates me when my eyes are opened up for a retinopathy exam. Tough to photograph your own eye, though - and especially whilst it's light intolerant!
This is a crude rendering of what is driving me insane. With two eyes open, this is pretty much what I see, only all the dark streaky things on the right are constantly moving and making me dizzy and sick to my stomach. I can see nothing on that side unless I turn my head far enough to see with my left eye, but when I do that, I can't see ahead, so I try to just ignore everything to the right of my nose. Unless something is moving (or making noise), I can't see it at all. I have to pray that left-turning traffic sees me crossing the street and doesn't kill me.
Even when I close my eyes, there is no escape as I still see the dark blobs. The only time I am not totally stressed out is when I am asleep.
Living in a two-dimensional world has been perilous in unexpected ways. Funny enough, the worst part of the day is getting my daily soup at the deli. I really love soup, but pouring the hot stuff from a giant ladle into a little cup is nearly impossible - I have no depth perception at all and pour it on my wrist nearly every time. Same thing happens when I try to pour laundry detergent into the washer. I can never see if what I am pouring is over the hole and this drives me crazy.
Other things that cause me great tension:
-Bike handlebars
-Broomstick sticking out of garbage cans (I encounter a lot on my way to work)
-Canal Street
-Not being able to see my cat, who is the same color as the shadows
-Making right turns or moving to the right
-Threading a needle (yes, I've actually had to do this!)
-Being in crowds or anywhere with a lot of moving people
-Going down stairs (they look flat)
-Coloring within the lines (I can't tell when the pen is going to touch the paper)
-Walking in the dark
I do enjoy looking all bad-ass in the eye patch, though. ;)
Sullivan & Spring
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HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Submitted by: Lee Ann Lazarus
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Organisation: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service
Category: Amateur
Caption: Eye to eye
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Photo uploaded from the #StrongerTogether Photo Competition website (photocomp.iapb.org)
A crude rendering of what I see when I close the good eye - basically nothing. I can see blobs of light, but every thing else is brownish blurs. Unless someone or something is moving, I have no idea it's there.
Sullivan & Spring
041307
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Find the best Diabetic Retinopathy treatments doctors in Indore at Shree Ganesh Netralaya Book your appointment with Dr Mahesh Agrawal, the best eye surgeon here
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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while it's nice that the ketamine and versed allow him to have the procedure without being "intubated" and put on a ventilator, he'll be so relaxed that he'll forget to breath, so they're watching his vitals closely. they warn me that he'll have a few "deep" apneas ( forgetting to breath ) and they'll have to revive him via a "bag" ventilator.
*Eyeverse* is a parallel universe. Its starry skies are generated on the basis of angiography photographs, reflecting pathological changes in the eyes affected by Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.
*Eyeverse* is a dynamic and changing environment. The final form into which it will evolve is unknown, and so is its duration. It is bound up with the life of one of its authors and the medical condition of her eyes–circumstances impossible to foresee.
At the exhibition visitors are invited to experience multidimensional, changing space and celestial formations of *Eyeverse*, as well as the medical images from which these originated, thus underlining the core thought of this artwork, which is *transformation*. Each of us has this power as individuals–the power to transform our fears. The power to turn tears into flawless, shimmering diamonds. The power to turn our deepest nightmares into beautiful smiles, images, forms or words, which might inspire others. Or to just simply make the world a more beautiful place and to let go of our fears.
credit: Marie Polakova
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Photo Title: Aggressive posterior ROP in Covid 19 pandemic
Submitted by: dr. Idayani Panggalo Sp.M
Category: ♥ EYE-SIGHTS
Country: Indonesia
Organization: UNHAS
Photo Caption: 2020 is the year of the highest case of covid 19, which makes all of the medical personnels in short of human resource, material, and equipment. Babies with aggressive posterior ROP and infected by covid 19 forced us as doctor to be creative to save vision in both eyes in the midst of lack of resource, although this is also critically hazardous as a medical personnel. Times gone by, and our toddler patient’s had come back with good eyesights with the help of glasses. We are hoping to save more eye visions for a better future.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Amateur
Country where the photo was taken: Indonesia
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2022.
Photographer: dr.indah Tri handayani
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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his opthamologist, dr. droste, is examining is eyes by placing a magnifying glass over each eye and looking into them.
although we held out a small amount of hope that his condition was apparent, but not real, the good doctor quickly concluded that the disease was progressing quite quickly and he'd need surgery soon to prevent complications such as blindness.
tommorrow, the doctor will put a laser on his head and tap a button on the floor which will ablate over 1,200 overgrown and abnormally tortuous blood vessels in each of his retinas.
amazingly, the whole process is expected to take about an hour. despite the advanced stage of the disease, the doctor thought that eric had a good chance of escaping any permanent damage.
it's interesting to note that stevie wonder was born premature and went blind from the same disease, but much progress has been made in how to treat the disease since stevie lost his sight.
the good news is that they caught the condition so quickly. although his opthamologist said he had seen similar cases where the disease progressed so quickly, he professed that it didn't happen very often.
the really good news is that there must have been a miscommunication the other day because he expects eric to recover quickly and the ROP surgery shouldn't significantly delay his release date! there's a good chance that he'll need additional surgeries, but he doesn't need to stay in the hospital for monitoring.
in an oddly calming tone, he said that they needed to do the surgery soon because even in just a few days they'd be "playing catch up", which is certainly not something you want to be doing when the stakes are eyesight.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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