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94 diseases · 17 high-burden in India

Acanthamoeba keratitis

Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a rare disease in which amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba…

Cataract

A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that impairs vision. Cataracts often…

Corneal ulcer

Corneal ulcer, often resulting from keratitis is an inflammatory or, more seriously,…

Cytomegalovirus retinitis

Cytomegalovirus retinitis, also known as CMV retinitis, is an inflammation of the retina…

Dacryocystitis

Dacryocystitis is an infection of the lacrimal sac, secondary to obstruction of the…

Diabetic retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy is a medical condition in which damage occurs to the retina due to…

Fungal keratitis

Fungal keratitis is a fungal infection of the cornea, which can lead to blindness. It…

Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can lead to damage of the optic nerve, which…

Hypertensive retinopathy

Hypertensive retinopathy is damage to the retina and retinal circulation due to high…

Keratitis

Keratitis is a condition in which the eye's cornea, the clear dome on the front surface…

Night blindness (Vitamin A)

Nyctalopia, also called night blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible…

Presbyopia

Presbyopia is a physiological insufficiency of optical accommodation associated with the…

Pterygium

A pterygium of the eye is a pinkish, roughly triangular tissue growth of the conjunctiva…

Refractive error (myopia)

Refractive error is a problem with focusing light accurately on the retina due to the…

Retinoblastoma

Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a rare form of cancer that rapidly develops from the immature…

Retinopathy of prematurity

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a disease of the eye affecting prematurely born…

Trachoma

Trachoma is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The…

Achromatopsia

Achromatopsia, also known as rod monochromacy, is a medical syndrome that exhibits…

Age-related macular degeneration

Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration, is an eye disease…

Amaurosis fugax

Amaurosis fugax is a painless temporary loss of vision in one or both eyes.

Amblyopia (lazy eye)

Amblyopia, also called lazy eye, is a disorder of sight in which the brain fails to fully…

Aniridia

Aniridia is a condition characterized by the absence or near absence of the iris, the…

Anisometropia

Anisometropia is a condition in which a person's eyes have substantially differing…

Anophthalmia

Anophthalmia is the medical term for the absence of one or both eyes. Both the globe and…

Asteroid hyalosis

Asteroid hyalosis is a degenerative condition of the eye involving small white opacities…

Astigmatism

Astigmatism is a type of refractive error due to rotational asymmetry in the eye's…

Axenfeld–Rieger syndrome

Axenfeld–Rieger syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, which affects the…

Band keratopathy

Band keratopathy is a corneal disease derived from the appearance of calcium on the…

Best disease (vitelliform dystrophy)

Vitelliform macular dystrophy is an irregular autosomal dominant eye disorder which can…

Blepharitis

Blepharitis, sometimes known as granulated eyelids, is one of the most common ocular…

Blue cone monochromacy

Blue cone monochromacy (BCM) is an inherited eye disease that causes severe color…

Brown's syndrome

Brown syndrome is a rare form of strabismus characterized by limited elevation of the…

Buphthalmos

Buphthalmos is enlargement of the eyeball and is most commonly seen in infants and young…

Central retinal artery occlusion

Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a disease of the eye where the flow of blood…

Central serous retinopathy

Central serous chorioretinopathy, also known as central serous retinopathy (CSR), is an…

Chalazion / stye

A chalazion or meibomian cyst is not a cyst but a granuloma in the eyelid that results…

Chorioretinitis

Chorioretinitis is an inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye. It is a form of…

Choroideremia

Choroideremia is a rare, X-linked recessive form of hereditary retinal degeneration that…

Coats' disease

Coats' disease is a rare congenital, nonhereditary eye disorder, causing full or partial…

Coloboma

A coloboma is a hole in one of the structures of the eye, such as the iris, retina,…

Color blindness

Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color,…

Cone dystrophy

A cone dystrophy is an inherited ocular disorder characterized by the loss of cone cells,…

Conjunctivitis

Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, is inflammation of the conjunctiva, the thin and…

Corneal abrasion

Corneal abrasion is a scratch to the surface of the cornea of the eye. Symptoms include…

Corneal dystrophy

Corneal dystrophy is a group of rare hereditary disorders characterised by bilateral…

Dacryoadenitis

Dacryoadenitis is inflammation of the lacrimal glands.

Diplopia (double vision)

Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be…

Drooping eyelid (ptosis)

Ptosis, also known as blepharoptosis, is a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid. This…

Dry eye syndrome

Dry eye disease (DED), also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca, is the condition of…

Duane syndrome

Duane syndrome is a congenital rare type of strabismus most commonly characterized by the…

Ectopia lentis

Ectopia lentis is a displacement or malposition of the eye's lens from its normal…

Ectropion

Ectropion is a medical condition in which the lower eyelid turns outwards. It is one of…

Endophthalmitis

Endophthalmitis, or endophthalmia, is inflammation of the interior cavity of the eye,…

Entropion

Entropion is a medical condition in which the eyelid folds inward. It is very…

Episcleritis

Episcleritis is a benign, self-limiting inflammatory disease affecting part of the eye…

Esotropia

Esotropia is a form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward. The condition…

Exophthalmos

Exophthalmos is a bulging of the eye anteriorly out of the orbit. Exophthalmos can be…

Exotropia

Exotropia is a form of strabismus where one or both eyes are deviated outward. It is the…

Eye floaters

Floaters or eye floaters are sometimes-visible deposits within the eye's vitreous humour,…

Fuchs' dystrophy

Fuchs dystrophy, also referred to as Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) and Fuchs…

Heterochromia

Heterochromia is a variation in an animal's coloration, most often a difference in the…

Hyphema

Hyphema is the medical condition of bleeding in the anterior chamber of the eye between…

Keratoconus

Keratoconus is an eye disorder in which the cornea, the transparent front part of the…

Leber congenital amaurosis

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or…

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrially inherited degeneration of…

Macular hole

A macular hole is a small break in the macula, located in the center of the eye's…

Microphthalmia

Microphthalmia, also referred as microphthalmos, is a developmental disorder of the eye…

Norrie disease

Norrie disease is a rare X-linked recessive genetic disorder that primarily affects the…

Nystagmus

Nystagmus is a condition of involuntary eye movement. People can be born with it but more…

Ocular hypertension

Ocular hypertension is the presence of elevated fluid pressure inside the eye, usually…

Ocular melanoma

Uveal melanoma is a type of eye cancer in the uvea of the eye. It is traditionally…

Optic atrophy

Optic neuropathy is damage to the optic nerve from any cause. The optic nerve is a bundle…

Optic disc drusen

Optic disc drusen (ODD) are globules of mucoproteins and mucopolysaccharides that…

Optic neuritis

Optic neuritis (ON) is a debilitating condition that is defined as inflammation of…

Orbital cellulitis

Orbital cellulitis is inflammation of eye tissues behind the orbital septum. It is most…

Papilloedema

Papilledema or papilloedema is optic disc swelling that is caused by increased…

Phthisis bulbi

Phthisis bulbi is a shrunken, non-functional eye. It may result from severe eye disease,…

Pinguecula

A pinguecula is a common type of conjunctival stromal degeneration in the eye. It appears…

Posterior vitreous detachment

A posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a condition of the eye in which the vitreous…

Retinal detachment

Retinal detachment is a condition where the retina pulls away from the tissue underneath…

Retinal vein occlusion

Central retinal vein occlusion, also CRVO, is when the central retinal vein becomes…

Retinitis pigmentosa

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a member of a group of genetic disorders called inherited…

Retinoschisis

Retinoschisis is an eye disease characterized by the abnormal splitting of the retina's…

Scleritis

Scleritis is a serious inflammatory disease that affects the white outer coating of the…

Sjögren dry eye

Dry eye disease (DED), also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca, is the condition of…

Stargardt disease

Stargardt disease is the most common inherited single-gene retinal disease. In terms of…

Strabismus (squint)

Strabismus is an eye disorder in which the eyes do not properly align with each other…

Stye

A stye, also known as a hordeolum, is a bacterial infection of an oil gland in the…

Subconjunctival haemorrhage

Subconjunctival bleeding, also known as subconjunctival hemorrhage or subconjunctival…

Sympathetic ophthalmia

Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO), also called spared eye injury, is a diffuse granulomatous…

Trichiasis

Trichiasis is a medical term for abnormally positioned eyelashes that grow back toward…

Uveitis

Uveitis is inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented layer of the eye between the inner…

Vitreous hemorrhage

Vitreous hemorrhage is the extravasation, or leakage, of blood into the areas in and…

Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease

Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease (VKH) is a multisystem disease of presumed autoimmune cause…

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