My watch list
my.bionity.com  
Login  

List of systemic diseases with ocular manifestations



Contents

This is a list of systemic diseases with ocular manifestations.

An ocular manifestation of a systemic disease is an eye condition that directly or indirectly results from a disease process another part of the body. There are many diseases known to cause ocular or visual changes. Diabetes, for example, is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in those aged 20-74, with ocular manifestations such as diabetic retinopathy and macular edema affecting up to 80% of those who have had the disease for 15 years or more[citation needed]. Other diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and hypertension are commonly found to have associated ocular symptoms.

Systemic allergic diseases

Skin and mucous membrane diseases

Phacomatoses

Collagen diseases

Systemic viral infections

Systemic bacterial infections

Systemic protozoal infections

Systemic fungal infections

Systemic cestode and nematode infections

Chromosomal disorders

Hematologic diseases

Cardiovascular diseases

  • Occlusive vascular disease (sudden)
  • Emboli and thrombi
  • Central retinal artery occlusion
  • Cardiac myxoma
  • Cranial arteritis
  • Sickle cell attack
  • Occlusive vascular disease (slow, progressive)
  • Venous occlusive disease

Endocrine diseases

Gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders

Metabolic disorders

Musculoskeletal disease

Pulmonary diseases

Renal disease

Neoplastic diseases with ocular metastases

  • Gut

References

  • Pavan-Langston, Deborah (1990). Manual of Ocular Diagnosis and Therapy. Little, Brown and Company.
 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "List_of_systemic_diseases_with_ocular_manifestations". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
Your browser is not current. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not support some functions on Chemie.DE