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Night Blindness
Poor Night Vision

Presentation

This is contrary to the standing opinion and present problems regarding the integrity of the retina. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Entire Body System

  • Falling

    The patient showed a normal rise for the photopic b-wave but lacked a normal falling slope after the b-wave peak. An OFF-response late-negativity was also noted. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

    However, in people who suffer with night blindness it can take a significant period of time to adapt, if at all and can even lead to accidents, like falling. [healthhype.com]

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    Acquired Causes Most of the acquired causes of night blindness (night blindness which is not present since birth and does not have a genetic basis), generally fall into the category of progressive night blindness. [web.archive.org]

  • Pain

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    It was described by the English physician William Heberden (1710-1801) who also discovered other medical disorders of importance including angina pectoris (chest pain that is often severe and crushing, due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart [medicinenet.com]

    Cryptorchidism in a 39-year-old man with left flank pain. [pubs.rsna.org]

    The symptoms that may require attention are visceral pain from metastases and neurogenic pain if nerve tissue is compressed. Coughing and breathlessness from lung involvement may require specific treatment. References Andrology Australia. [healthengine.com.au]

  • Fishing

    DHA is converted from omega-3 fatty acids, both of which are found in certain fish oils. The suggested daily dose of DHA (from fish oils) is 500 – 1000 mg. [encyclopedia.com]

    Such a deficiency may result from diets low in animal foods (the main source of vitamin A), such as eggs, dairy products, organ meats, and some fish. [uofmhealth.org]

  • Weakness

    It is helpful in dealing with weakness of Optic Nerves. Collect black Basil leaves and grind them to extract its juice. Use this juice as an eye drop. Put one drop in the affected eye daily before going to bed. [herbpathy.com]

    This medical conditions primarily affects the brain and motor functions and apart from night blindness there are many different symptoms such as deafness, weakness, balance and coordination problems. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

    The patient, in the initial phase of retinitis pigmentosa, perceives compromised minor and weak light vision due to the decline of the rod photoreceptors. Later, this will be followed by irregularities in the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium. [manipalhospitals.com]

    Night Blindness is also seen to occur in people with pancreatic disorders as weak pancreas fail to absorb adequate vitamin A and he body gets vitamin A deficiency resulting in Night Blindness. [epainassist.com]

    […] radial keratotomy) Sorsby's Fundus Dystrophy (Macular degeneration) Vitamin A deficiency Choroideremia Glaucoma Aulus Cornelius Celsus, writing ca. 30 AD, described night blindness and recommended an effective dietary supplement: "There is besides a weakness [en.wikipedia.org]

  • Disability

    […] noun ‘They are usually registered partially sighted by their thirties, suffering night blindness and losing their peripheral vision to become severely visually disabled.’ [en.oxforddictionaries.com]

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    The prognosis for MBD is correlated with the subtype, as follows: Type A - Has a long-term disability rate of 86% and a mortality rate of 21% Type B - Has a long-term disability rate of 19% and a mortality rate of 0% Radiologic findings In a 2004 review [emedicine.medscape.com]

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Skin

  • Acne Vulgaris

    Isotretinoin is an effective and increasingly popular treatment for acne vulgaris. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Eyes

  • Night Blindness

    Acquired Causes Most of the acquired causes of night blindness (night blindness which is not present since birth and does not have a genetic basis), generally fall into the category of progressive night blindness. [web.archive.org]

    ERG might be more sensitive than serum vitamin A level and is recommended in case of night blindness but still normal vitamin A level. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

    Night blindness is poor vision at night or in dim light. Night blindness may cause problems with driving at night. People with night blindness often have trouble seeing stars on a clear night or walking through a dark room, such as a movie theater. [nlm.nih.gov]

  • Blurred Vision

    The main symptoms are dryness in the eyes and blurred vision. Nyctalopia is more common among men than women. [diethealthclub.com]

    Causes – Night blindness develops from a disorder of cells in the retina caused by: Nearsightedness Blurred vision Cataracts or lens clouding Aging Vitamin A deficiency Prescription drugs Retinitis pigmentosa – a collection of dark pigment cells in the [ameritasinsight.com]

    Patients may additionally complain about headache, dry eyes and blurred vision. Night Blindness Treatment Some people may benefit from eye drops which allow their eye to adequately accommodate when daylight is replaced with nighttime. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

    ‘If the liver blood is insufficient, there will be a dryness of the eyes, blurred vision, or night blindness.’ ‘He suffers from night blindness, but this hasn't stopped him winning three Paralympic titles and a host of other medals.’ [en.oxforddictionaries.com]

    Symptoms of night blindness The main symptoms of moonblink are: Inability to see at night, problems with driving due to lack of visibility at night, trouble adjusting your eyes to changing light, dry eyes, blurred vision, etc. [botanical-online.com]

  • Dry Eyes

    Dry Eyes Dry eye syndrome reduces the quality and quantity of your tear film. This can affect the condition of the cornea thus affecting the quality of vision, especially night vision. LASIK Complications Complications of LASIK are fairly common. [improveeyesighthq.com]

    Patients may additionally complain about headache, dry eyes and blurred vision. Night Blindness Treatment Some people may benefit from eye drops which allow their eye to adequately accommodate when daylight is replaced with nighttime. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

    Prolonged vitamin A deficiencies can lead to chronic dry eye and a buildup of keratin debris in the corners of the eye. Over time, people will experience retinal and corneal damage, leading to blindness. [livestrong.com]

    Symptoms of night blindness The main symptoms of moonblink are: Inability to see at night, problems with driving due to lack of visibility at night, trouble adjusting your eyes to changing light, dry eyes, blurred vision, etc. [botanical-online.com]

  • Visual Impairment

    Author information 1 The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired and Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, Illinois, USA. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

    Synonyms: moon blindness, nyctalopia Type of: avitaminosis, hypovitaminosis any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins vision defect, visual defect, visual disorder, visual impairment impairment of the sense of sight [vocabulary.com]

    When analyzing data, cases whose blindness was probably due to visual impairment from other causes are generally excluded. [cpc.unc.edu]

    Night blindness is technically referred to as nyctalopia, and is regarded as a visual impairment. People who battle this impairment experience poor vision in dimly lit rooms or at night. [med-health.net]

Neurologic

  • Stroke

    Recurrent silent strokes, with or without clinical strokes, often lead to cognitive decline and overt subcortical dementia. [en.wikipedia.org]

    You may also undergo visual field testing, which can detect central and peripheral vision problems caused by glaucoma and other eye diseases or by conditions that affect the brain, such as stroke. [eyehealthweb.com]

    Lets not forget that too many calories often lead to obesity and a higher risk of developing diabetes and other serious problems including stroke, cardiomyopathycardiac and sudden cardiac death. [punchng.com]

  • Headache

    Other problems include headaches, stomach aches, dizziness, night blindness, leprosy, dermatitis, and skin disorders. The electroretinogram in congenital stationary night blindness with myopia. [dictionary.cambridge.org]

    Patients may additionally complain about headache, dry eyes and blurred vision. Night Blindness Treatment Some people may benefit from eye drops which allow their eye to adequately accommodate when daylight is replaced with nighttime. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

    The most common clinical manifestations are migraine headaches and transient ischemic attacks or strokes, which usually occur between 40 and 50 years of age, although MRI is able to detect signs of the disease years prior to clinical manifestation of [en.wikipedia.org]

  • Dizziness

    Other problems include headaches, stomach aches, dizziness, night blindness, leprosy, dermatitis, and skin disorders. The electroretinogram in congenital stationary night blindness with myopia. [dictionary.cambridge.org]

    Take too much vitamin A and it will be stored in the liver leading to toxicity, logically called “hypervitaminosis A”, the symptoms of which include skin irritation, feeling dizzy and nauseous, and pain in body joints. [optometrist.com.au]

  • Irritability

    Take too much vitamin A and it will be stored in the liver leading to toxicity, logically called “hypervitaminosis A”, the symptoms of which include skin irritation, feeling dizzy and nauseous, and pain in body joints. [optometrist.com.au]

    Insects spread diseases—some of them deadly—and can cause irritating and performance-limiting allergic reactions. We’ll spend the hour answering your questions about protecting horses from mosquitoes, gnats, biting flies, ticks, and more. [thehorse.com]

    Fecal transplant is used to treat gut infections and is now being studied as a treatment for obesity, urinary tract infections, irritable bowel syndrome and more. [nytimes.com]

Workup

Metastatic workup showed no nodal or distant spread, T1N0M0 stage I. After orchiectomy, the patient underwent adjuvant external beam radiotherapy to the para-aortic nodes. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Splenogonadal fusion in a 29-year-old man with a painless, palpable left testicular mass, found during workup for infertility. [pubs.rsna.org]

PET scanning is not usually part of the initial workup but may be useful in tracking activity and growth in residual masses following definitive chemotherapy. [9] [3] [10] [11] Several laboratory values may be useful in following tumor burdens. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Treatment

KEYWORDS: Cuban treatment; Soviet Union treatment; dubious RP treatments; historical RP treatments; night blindness; retinitis pigmentosa (RP) [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Future treatments may include retinal transplant, artificial retinal implants, and stem-cell treatment of the genetic defect. [web.archive.org]

Treatment Treatment Options: No treatment has been reported. [disorders.eyes.arizona.edu]

Prognosis

Prognosis Prognosis is good but depends on the stage of disease with 5- year survival rates as high as 99% in stage 1 disease. [orpha.net]

Prognosis Seminoma of the testis is associated with a good prognosis, with most tumours following an indolent course. In cases without evidence of lymphatic spread, 5 year survival approaches 100%. [healthengine.com.au]

Moreover, data suggest an improved overall prognosis for MBD. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Unknown status NCT00004219 Phase 3 granisetron hydrochloride;lerisetron 2 Trial of Imaging and Schedule in Seminoma Testis Unknown status NCT00589537 Phase 3 3 Randomized Phase II/III Study of Taxol/Paclitaxel-BEP Versus BEP in Patients With Intermediate Prognosis [malacards.org]

Etiology

However, the etiology of this unique form of unilateral night blindness remains obscure. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Etiology Etiology is unknown but tumors are thought to arise from an embryonic germ cell leading to testicular intraepithelial neoplasia (the precursor to classical seminoma). [orpha.net]

Pathogenesis Etiology Inherited in the Appaloosa by, as yet, an unidentified pattern - thought to be either autosomal recessive, or sex-linked recessive, with the defect on the X chromosome. [vetstream.com]

Etiology and Pathophysiology It has long been accepted that the etiology of Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is likely either toxic or nutritional, as it is seen predominantly in malnourished alcoholics. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Epidemiology

ORPHA:1390 Synonym(s): Hunter-Thompson-Reed syndrome Prevalence: Inheritance: - Age of onset: Childhood ICD-10: Q87.8 OMIM: - UMLS: - MeSH: - GARD: - MedDRA: - Summary Epidemiology It has been described in two brothers. [orpha.net]

Kataja This Clinical Practice Guideline for Testicular Seminoma and Non-seminoma features epidemiology of these rare malignancies in young men, the diagnosis, management of the primary tumour, post-orchiectomy staging and risk assessment, treatment recommendations [esmo.org]

Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated different incidence patterns in western civilized countries with overall rising incidence trends. [urotoday.com]

Pathophysiology

The pathophysiology of acne. Cutis. 2005; 76 (2 Suppl):4–7. [ PubMed ] 2. Harris EW, Loewenstein JI, Azar D. Vitamin A deficiency and its effects on the eye. Int Ophthalmol Clin. 1998; 38 :155–61. [ PubMed ] 3. Danby FW. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Pathophysiology A congenital, non-progressive disease which produces visual disturbance in reduced light conditions, probably due to a defect in neural transmission from the photoreceptor cell to the bipolar and Muller cells. [vetstream.com]

(See Etiology and Pathophysiology.) In 1903, Italian pathologists Marchiafava and Bignami described 3 alcoholic men who died after having seizures and coma. [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] primary to extragonadal sites (such as pineal gland) ICD coding ICD-10: C62.90 - malignant neoplasm of unspecified testis, unspecified whether descended or undescended ICD0: 9061/3 - seminoma, NOS Epidemiology Male, age 30 - 49 Rare in > 70 or < 20 years Pathophysiology [pathologyoutlines.com]

A case of CADASIL presenting as schizophreniform organic psychosis has been reported. [6] Pathophysiology [ edit ] The underlying pathology of CADASIL is progressive hypertrophy of the smooth muscle cells in blood vessels. [en.wikipedia.org]

Prevention

Proper intake of vitamin A is one preventive measure against night blindness. If the problems originates from other medical conditions, it can be prevented only if the specific condition that leads to night blindness is preventable. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

Night Blindness Prevention “Prevention is better than cure”, isn’t it? In most cases, night blindness can be prevented by taking proper care of one’s health. [healthguidance.org]

Prevention and Management By treating the above conditions early it is possible to prevent night blindness. Vitamin A supplementation as a preventative measure will only be effective for night blindness due to vitamin A deficiency. [healthhype.com]

This is the first and foremost reason behind night blindness and is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness. It is critical to reduce the rate of child mortality. [manipalhospitals.com]

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