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Eyelash: causes and treatment problems

Like any other hair covering on the human body, the eyelashes are designed to protect against external influences, only in this case the eyes. On average, the rate of renewal of the ciliary layer of the eyelids is 4-5 eyelashes a day. This is usually considered the norm. If a person observes a significant dropout, then this can be considered an alarming symptom for seeking advice from a dermatologist. If the cause lies in the inflammatory process of the eyes, the doctor will refer to the oph...

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy: symptoms and treatment

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder associated with a disorder in the structure of the muscle fibers. Muscle fibers in this disease, in the end, break up, and the ability to move is lost. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is transmitted adherent to the sex, men are ill. It manifests itself already in childhood. In addition to muscle disorders, the disease leads to skeletal deformities, can be accompanied by respiratory and heart failure, mental and endocrine disorders. A radical...

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Acute attack of glaucoma: symptoms and treatment

Glaucoma is a pathological condition of the eyes, which is characterized by increased intraocular pressure. The pressure rises above the rates that can normally carry the eye of a particular person, there is an atrophy of the optic nerve, a decrease in visual acuity (sometimes significant), defect fields develop view. The term "glaucoma" unites a fairly large group of eye diseases. The increase in intraocular pressure (IOP) may be permanent or may occur intermittently. Content 1Definition...

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What is corneal opacity?

Under the opacity of the cornea in ophthalmology is understood a whole group of specific features that have a similar etiology and features of manifestation.This is a common disease that develops due to a variety of causes: eye trauma, infection, as a complication after surgery. After appearance of typical signs, many postpone visiting a doctor, writing off everything for fatigue, but timely treatment is the only way to avoid unpleasant and sometimes irreversible complications. Content 1D...

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TIA: Symptoms and Treatment

Transient ischemic attack is a short-term reduction in cerebral blood flow, the symptoms of which should disappear within a day. The relevance of the problem of TIA can not be overestimated, since it is this very first anxious bell of a possible stroke. Stroke after TIA can develop within 3 months, the risk of this is 17%, and in 60% of cases the same arterial pool is affected. Even if the stroke does not develop within 3 months, then the possibility of its development increases by 5 times....

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Parasitic diseases of the nervous system: basic information

Parasitic diseases of the nervous system combine a group of diseases caused by helminths (worms) and protozoa. Pathogens can cause damage not only to the nervous system, but also to other organs and systems. More often there is a combined defeat of different structures of the body. From this article you can learn about the most common parasitic diseases of the nervous system: about which pathogen they are caused, than are shown, what methods are used for treatment, and what to do in order no...

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Temporal arteritis: symptoms and treatment

Temporal (temporal) arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of vessels with a lesion of the walls arteries of large and medium caliber and the primary involvement of the temporal artery in this process. It is also called Horton's disease (by the name of a doctor who in 1932 gave a detailed description of this pathology) or giant cell granulomatous arteritis. The clinical picture consists of the signs of the systemic inflammatory process and the disturbance of the functioning of organs su...

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Cataract - how to identify how to prevent, how to treat?

Problems that affect human vision, there may be many, but cataracts among them are allocated enough strongly, because it can easily lead to the fact that a person simply loses his sight, finally blinded.It is necessary to carefully monitor this insidious pathology, which can sneak up unnoticed and "hit" even on those people who, as it seems at first glance, were absolutely healthy. Content 1What is cataract 2Causes of appearance and symptoms 3Cataract removal 3.1Methods of treatment 3...

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Horizontal Nystagmus: Features of Pathology and Methods of Treatment

It happens, when a person can involuntarily move or twitch eyeballs to the right or left. The process can not be controlled. From the outside it looks rather strange, but this phenomenon is not just an oddity, but a disease that most often appears in pathologies of the nervous system. If a problem is found, you should contact an ophthalmologist to choose the appropriate treatment. Content 1Definition of disease 2Causes 3Symptoms 4Possible complications 5Treatment 5.1Medication 5.2Su...

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Monocular vision: how to identify?

With the help of the organs of vision, a person receives information about the external world: the magnitude of objects, their shape, color, mutual position in space. Evaluation of the phenomena of the surrounding world, the properties of objects of the features of their displacement and others necessary for the vital activity of the person of the data, depends on the quality of sight, the correct functioning of the visual system. Usually monocular vision is not the main obstacle for most wo...

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