Progressive Loss of Visual Acuity Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Goldmann-Favre Syndrome

A 21-year-old woman complained of progressive loss of visual acuity. She had also had night blindness since she was ten years old. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

GFS manifests with progressive loss of visual acuity and night blindness. Peripheral vision can be decreased. Cataract is a frequent complication. [orpha.net]

Prognosis GFS has a progressive course. In most cases, visual loss occurs in the first two decades of life. [orpha.net]

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Common Cold

Visual acuity loss was not significantly affected by zinc supplementation alone. [ods.od.nih.gov]

A follow-up AREDS2 study confirmed the value of this supplement in reducing the progression of AMD over a median follow-up period of 5 years [ 78 ]. [ods.od.nih.gov]

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Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy

Abstract Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is the most prevalent hereditary optic neuropathy resulting in progressive loss of visual acuity, centrocoecal scotoma and [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

This disorder presents in childhood with progressive loss of visual acuity that is usually bilateral, centrocecal scotoma that is typically symmetrical, and bilateral temporal [athenadiagnostics.com]

The affected family members exhibited early-onset and progressive visual impairment, resulting in mild to profound loss of visual acuity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Optic Atrophy

Clinical features of ADOA include a slowly progressive bilateral loss of visual acuity, constriction of peripheral visual fields, central scotomas, and color vision abnormalities [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Foster-Kennedy Syndrome

A 52-year-old man had progressive loss of visual acuity in his left eye associated with anosmia of five years duration. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Case Presentation: In this study, we describe a 34-year-old male who presented with progressive loss of visual acuity and field. [sid.ir]

Gradual and progressive loss of vision is a hallmark of compressive optic neuropathy, the most common causes of which are meningioma, pituitary adenoma, intracranial aneurysm [ircmj.com]

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Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy

acuity and 21 systemic corticosteroid-treated eyes with progressive visual acuity loss. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] with progressive visual acuity loss. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Over her 13-year follow-up, best-corrected visual acuity dropped to 20/60 in both eyes and visual field loss because of chorioretinal atrophy progressed significantly. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Thrombosis

Visual loss is often insidious, with progressive constriction of the visual fields and relative sparing of central visual acuity. [stroke.ahajournals.org]

Visual Loss Severe visual loss due to CVT rarely occurs (2% to 4%). 55, 193, 235 Papilledema can cause transient visual impairment, and if prolonged, optic atrophy and blindness [stroke.ahajournals.org]

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Keratitis

The patient presented with progressive loss of vision with best-corrected visual acuity 20/40. Immature cataract with 1.43D against the rule astigmatism was noted. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Benign Concentric Annular Macular Dystrophy

A study showed a "bulls’ eye" maculopathy, associated with a negative ERG in four unrelated patients who had normal vision initially, but with progressive loss of visual acuity [scielo.br]

In contrast, adult-onset VMD (AVMD) becomes symptomatic not before the fourth or fifth decade of life with a relatively mild and slowly progressive loss of central visual [mdpi.com]

[…] of visual acuity in the initial stages. 3 In our patient, the adulthood onset, gradually progressive visual decline, symmetric circumscribed area of macular geographic atrophy [westcoastretina.com]

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Cerebral Thrombosis

Visual loss is often insidious, with progressive constriction of the visual fields and relative sparing of central visual acuity. [ahajournals.org]

Visual Loss Severe visual loss due to CVT rarely occurs (2% to 4%). 55, 193, 235 Papilledema can cause transient visual impairment, and if prolonged, optic atrophy and blindness [ahajournals.org]

Visual Loss Severe visual loss due to CVT rarely occurs (2% to 4%).55,193,235 Papilledema can cause transient visual impairment, and if prolonged, optic atrophy and blindness [ahajournals.org]

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Carotid Artery Occlusion

loss of visual acuity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] caused by embolism from the ICA, in 4–18% of patients with occlusion or severe stenosis of the ICA, a syndrome of chronic ocular ischaemia may develop.11 Patients complain of progressive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Optic Neuropathy

Toxic and nutritional optic neuropathies are typically characterized by bilateral, simultaneous visual impairment with progressive loss of visual acuity, dyschromatopsia, [healio.com]

The patients experience gradual and progressive loss of visual acuity in days or weeks. OD may be observed as normal or swollen in appearance at initial presentation. [medcraveonline.com]

[…] vision loss, reduced visual acuity and/or visual field, dyschromatopsia, a relative afferent pupillary defect, and eventual optic atrophy. [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Wolfram Syndrome

She began to complain of progressive loss of visual acuity at the age of 16 and four years later bilateral atrophy of the optic nerves was detected. [jmg.bmj.com]

Patients present a progressive reduction of visual acuity and loss of color vision (leading to vision of 6/60 or less in the better eye over an average of 8 years). [orpha.net]

Ophthalmological examination showed a progressive loss of visual acuity owing to bilateral optic atrophy (0.6 and 0.8 at the age of 7, 0.1, and 0.3 at the age of 13 for the [jmg.bmj.com]

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Medial Sclerosis

[…] vision loss, color loss disproportionate to visual acuity deficit, nonglaucomatous optic disc cupping, temporal visual field cut, bilateral visual field involvement Cranial [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] study, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, investigations for hypertension and diabetes Compressive optic neuropathy (pituitary lesions, meningiomas, aneurysm) Painless, progressive [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Haddad Syndrome

Visual field defects and a progressive loss of visual acuity can be associated with optic disc hamartomas for their mechanical pushing effect [6]. [hindawi.com]

In most cases visual acuity is not affected due to extramacular localization of lesions. [hindawi.com]

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Retinitis Pigmentosa

No trial reported a statistically significant benefit of vitamin supplementation on the progression of visual field loss or visual acuity loss. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Loss of or diminished night vision (the earliest & most frequent symptom) Normal visual acuity in early stages Donut shaped visual field loss progressing to severe constriction [mesvision.com]

Donut shaped visual field loss progressing to severe constriction (loss of peripheral vision) Color Testing: helps determine the status of your cone cells, the retinal cells [mesvision.com]

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Optic Nerve Infarction

[…] outcome, the investigators believe that offering them intra-vitreal bevacizumab injection that might halt the progression of the visual acuity and visual field loss if our [clinicaltrials.gov]

Before ONSD, all patients had documented evidence of progressive loss of visual acuity or visual field, or both. [aetna.com]

[…] binocular visual loss during first decade Binocularly symmetric visual acuity loss Dominant inheritance Mapped to chromosome 3q No treatment Clinical Findings Slowly progressive [goodhopeeyeclinic.org.uk]

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Glaucoma

Visual acuity Progression of visual acuity loss was defined as worsening by at least one Snellen line in Gunning 1998. [doi.org]

loss and the untreated group of participants that developed progressive visual field loss for visual acuity and IOP outcomes. [doi.org]

As the disease progresses there is reduced visual acuity and greatly increased intraocular pressure that can cause the appearance of colored rings or halos around bright objects [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

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Exfoliation Syndrome

Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/400 OD and 20/60 OS. [scielo.br]

CASE REPORT A 89-year-old Black female patient was admitted with a 6-year history of advanced open-angle glaucoma with progressive vision loss OU. [scielo.br]

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Erysipelas

Visual acuity was light perception. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

A 64-year-old woman with chronic right arm lymphoedema presented with progressive and painful vision loss in the right eye following diagnosis of erysipelas in the ipsilateral [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Open-Angle Glaucoma

The patient was then lost to follow-up for 2 years and returned with elevated intraocular pressures (IOPs), visual acuity and field loss, progressive optic disc damage, peripapillary [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is characterized by progressive visual loss beginning in childhood, loss of visual acuity, and optic nerve pallor. [egl-eurofins.com]

The pathophysiology is not fully understood but there is a progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons. [patient.info]

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Pallidopyramidal Syndrome

loss of visual acuity, significant optic nerve pallor and occasionally additional neurological manifestations, with females being unaffected. [mendelian.co]

ATROPHY Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy is a rare form of hereditary optic atrophy, seen in only 4 families to date, with an onset in early childhood, characterized by progressive [mendelian.co]

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Peripheral Vasoproliferative Retinopathy

visual acuity loss. [emedicine.medscape.com]

However, these two cases were already complicated by exudative macular changes that resulted in a loss of visual acuity. [bjo.bmj.com]

[…] are generally asymptomatic; in the more advanced stages of the disease, however, patients may experience symptoms that include floaters, blurred vision, distortion, and progressive [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Demyelinating Disease

Over the next couple of days, the eye pain was followed by progressive vision loss that she described as a “comma shaped dark/blurry spot” in the middle of her vision. [eyerounds.org]

She saw an outside ophthalmologist, who noted Visual Acuity (VA) of 20/40 in the right eye (OD), VA of 20/25 in left eye (OS), and a swollen right optic nerve on dilated fundus [eyerounds.org]

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Retinal Edema

The goal of treatment is to maintain current visual acuity and reduce the chances of progressive visual loss. [medicinenet.com]

A continued, progressive loss of central visual acuity will follow. The bigger the edema, the more vision that will be lost. [evrs.eu]

Even with successful treatment, visual acuity often does not improve. CONTINUE SCROLLING OR CLICK HERE FOR RELATED ARTICLE Reviewed on 12/11/2018 [medicinenet.com]

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Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 10

The most frequent visual symptom was progressive visual acuity loss, reported by 10 (66.7%) patients. [scielo.br]

In our series, the most frequent presenting visual symptom was progressive visual acuity loss, a hallmark of NCL, in 10 (66.7%) patients 4 - 6. [scielo.br]

acuity; E epilepsy; LVA progressive loss of visual acuity; ATX ataxia; NPMI neuro-psycho-motor involution; ONA optic nerve atrophy; XT exotropia; JB Jansky-Bielschowsky; [scielo.br]

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Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndrome

At the age of 35, he presented posterior uveitis, several episodes of conjunctivitis, and progressive loss of visual acuity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Visual acuity and field were stable in all patients, progressive hearing loss occurred in 1/10 ears. Adverse events (AEs) were rare. [doi.org]

Visual acuity and visual field should be monitored. [rheumatologyadvisor.com]

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Zinc Deficiency

[…] of vision loss in the US) by 25% and visual acuity loss by 19% in those at high risk for the disease. 7. [naturallivingideas.com]

Visual acuity loss was not significantly affected by zinc supplementation alone. [ods.od.nih.gov]

Large-scale clinical research found that taking zinc and other important eye-vitamins daily can slow the progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (the leading cause [naturallivingideas.com]

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Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome

[…] of visual acuity, lens transparency, and visual field; progression of optic nerve head damage Intervals at which outcome assessed: every 6 months for 2 years, and at 10 years [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The pathophysiology is not fully understood, but there is a progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons. [patient.info]

[…] untreated fellow eye vs refractive error; refraction measured after cydoplegia (1% tropicamide, 1 drop every 5 minutes for 15 minutes) Safety measures, as denned by the trial: loss [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Spastic Ataxia with Congenital Miosis

loss of visual acuity, significant optic nerve pallor and occasionally additional neurological manifestations, with females being unaffected. [mendelian.co]

This causes bitemporal hemianopia and progressive loss of visual acuity. [headnecksurgery.wordpress.com]

611146.0001) Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy is a rare form of hereditary optic atrophy, seen in only 4 families to date, with an onset in early childhood, characterized by progressive [findzebra.com]

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