Eye conditions
Our information on individual eye conditions is medically checked and is designed to be as useful as possible. We have grouped them below, in alphabetical order, into three groups: names beginning with A to C, D to N and O to Z to make them easier to find quickly.
A - C
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Aniridia
- Anti-VEGF treatment (for wet AMD, diabetic maculopathy or macular oedema caused by retinal vein occlusion)
- Best disease
- Cataracts
- Cataracts – posterior capsule opacification (laser treatment following cataract surgery)
- Central serous retinopathy
- Charles Bonnet syndrome
- Coats' disease
- Coloboma
- Congenital cataracts
- Corneal dystrophies
- Corneal transplant
D - N
- Diabetes-related eye conditions
- Dry eye
- Fuchs dystrophy
- Giant cell or temporal arteritis
- Glaucoma
- Keratoconus
- Light sensitivity (photophobia)
- Macular hole
- Myopia and high degree myopia
- Nystagmus
O - Z
- Optic neuritis
- Posterior lens capsule opacification
- Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD)
- Retinal detachment
- Retinal vessel occlusion
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Squint in childhood (strabismus)
- Stargardt disease
- Stroke-related eye conditions
- Thyroid eye disease
- Uveitis
Rare eye conditions
Unfortunately, we are not able to produce detailed medical information on the some of the rarer eye conditions, so we have created a list of charities and support groups who offer specialised advice on our rare eye conditions page.
- Albinism
- Alstrom syndrome
- Behcets syndrome
- Birdshot uveitis
- Dystonia
- Ehlers-Danos syndrome
- Friedreich’s ataxia
- Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON)
- Marfan syndrome
- Micro and anophthalmia
- Neurofibromatosis
- Ocular melanoma
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Punctate inner choroidopathy
- Retinoblastoma
- Sarcoidosis
- Stickler syndrome
- Toxoplasmosis of the eye
Help and support
If you are looking for information on eye conditions not listed above, have a read of our further information on eye conditions page.
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