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Ophthalmology, like many specialties, has many named diseases and syndromes that are descriptions of symptoms or findings, or named after the doctor who first named the disease, often before technology was available to identify infectious causes. Some syndromes and descriptions of symptoms in ophthalmology include, but are not limited to, endothelial dystrophy, endothelial dysfunction, epithelial dysfunction, inflammation, and inclusion cysts; Fuchs corneal dystrophy, Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis, glaucoma, macular degeneration, RPE, ICSR, retinitis pigmentosa, and retinal detachment; and Waldenstrom syndrome,…..
H-pylori can cause RPE, geographic atrophy, lattice degeneration, retinal holes, retinal tears, and retinal detachments. H-pylori attacks retinal epithelium, and burrows downward to attack collagen, causing loss of adherence (RPE) of retinal layers, inflammation, thinning, pitting, and atrophy; and ultimately retinal holes, tears and detachments. Chlamydia trachoma, psittacosis and pneumonia can also attack retinal epithelium and endothelium, and retinal vessels. Chronic infection can cause thinning and stretching of the retina, and the tension leads to holes or thin spots at…..
Veterinarians know pets transmit viral, bacterial and parasitic infections to their owners, cats transmit toxoplasmosis to owners, and horses can transmit chlamydia psittacosis. Veterinarians know owners can transmit pathogens to the pets, and lists of human and animal diseases are similar. The “Atlas of CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY” warns cats and dogs can transmit pathogens that cause eye disease. Literature supports pathogens can migrate from one part of the eye to another, which may then be treated by a different ophthalmology…..
Treatment of glaucoma is the symptomatic reduction of intraocular pressure using drops, lasers, surgery, and surgical implantation of glaucoma devices, to reduce pressure and prevent vision loss. Drops reduce intraocular pressure but do not treat the root cause of elevated pressure. Laser treatments and surgery reduce pressure, but can fail, allowing pressure to again rise. Implanted glaucoma devices have a high 5-year failure rate, and can cause corneal damage from touch to the underside of the cornea. The pathogenesis of…..
Low-pressure glaucoma is when the patient suffers damage to the optic nerve and loss of peripheral vision, in an eye with normal intraocular pressure. Thyroid disease is a common co-morbid condition in low-pressure glaucoma; and high thyroid is known to cause swelling behind the eye, compression of the optic nerve, and loss of visual field, which appears identical to the damage and visual field loss in glaucoma. Many articles were published over the course of a decade, describing thyroid…..
H-pylori attacks epithelium, burrows beneath and attaches to collagen, creates a portal for new pathogens to enter, and is a known cause of stomach ulcers. Stomach disease is a common co-morbid condition in eye disease, and H-pylori can reach the eye from the stomach via the vagus nerve, the immune system, or self-inoculation. In the eye, H-pylori can move from the front of the eye to the anterior chamber, vitreous, and the retina. H-pylori has been “associated” with blepharitis, ocular…..
Chlamydia species, h-pylori and toxoplasmosis can migrate or metastasize from one part of the eye to another part of the eye. More than 25 scientific articles have “associated” chlamydia and H-pylori to glaucoma, and the severity of glaucoma has been “associated” with high chlamydia titers. Iris disintegration has been “associated” with toxoplasmosis, causing pigment-dispersion glaucoma. Yet, the Atlas of Glaucoma (2014) failed to mention chlamydia, H-pylori, or other immortal pathogens, in the discussion of glaucoma. Atlas of CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY…..
The cornea has five layers: The outer layer is epithelium, the inner layer is endothelium, and the middle layer is stroma. Each layer is separated by a thin membrane—Bowman’s and Descemet’s membrane. The eye has epithelium is on the surface of the cornea; and on the surface of the retina, however, the surface of the retina is inside the eye. Immortal pathogens have a predilection for types of tissue, i.e. epithelium, endothelium and stroma, no matter the tissue or…..
Thyroid disease can be caused by a chronic infection, which triggers the immune system to create thyroid antibodies (TPO). Thyroid disease can lead to thyroid eye disease (TED), and TED patients are often steroid responders, meaning intraocular pressure rises when the patient is treated with steroids. Surgery on the eyes of a patient with pre-existing TED can cause thyroid orbitopathy, in the surgical eye, as a result of surgery creating a portal for thyroid antibodies. Sequential eye surgeries, in a…..
The thyroid gland is an endocrine gland, in the neck. Thyroid disease may cause low levels of thyroid hormones (hypothyroid), high levels of thyroid hormone (hyperthyroid), or alternating high and low thyroid hormones (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis). Low thyroid causes dry skin, a feeling of being cold, a slow heart rate, difficulty sleeping, fatigue, muscle and joint pain and stiffness, hair loss, dry hair, constipation, and weight gain. High thyroid can cause difficulty tolerating heat, a rapid heartbeat, difficulty sleeping, mood swings,…..
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