RETINAL ARTERIAL MACROANEURYSM

RETINAL ARTERIAL MACROANEURYSM

It is usually unilateral retinal pathology, which is usually associated with high blood pressure and generalized vascular disease. This pathology is more common in women who are in the sixth decade of life and can also be associated with decreased visual acuity. It is...
OCULAR HERPES

OCULAR HERPES

Herpes simplex virus is a viral infection that has a special predilection for the lips and eyes (HSV type 1) or for the genital area (HSV type 2), producing the typical blisters. It is a virus that usually lives among us, it lodges in the neuronal ganglia and remains...
COVID 19 AND CONJUNCTIVITIS

COVID 19 AND CONJUNCTIVITIS

COVID-19 is a coronavirus imported from China, and its transmission is mainly by the respiratory route. This new virus is still in continuous study due to the few months that it is among us and that has caused the well-known current pandemic. This means that if a...
ECTROPION

ECTROPION

Palpebral ectropion is the eversion of the lower eyelid that turns outward. To have good eye health, it is essential that the eyelids are in contact with the eyeball. There must be a correct lubrication of the conjunctival and corneal surface and a proper visual...
WORLD GLAUCOMA DAY, MARCH 12

WORLD GLAUCOMA DAY, MARCH 12

Our mission as ophthalmologists is to make the population aware of how important it is to go to the ophthalmologist for an eye exam and thus prevent or treat, one of the chronic eye diseases that most often cause blindness from the age of sixty. We are talking about...
FACOELCHE 2020

FACOELCHE 2020

One more year, one of the mandatory ophthalmological appointments of the year has just been held. This is FACOELCHE 2020. A meeting that brings together the most representative clinics and ophthalmologists in the country, along with a large number of ophthalmologists...
KERATOCONUS. WHAT IS IT?, HOW IS IT TREATED?

KERATOCONUS. WHAT IS IT?, HOW IS IT TREATED?

Keratoconus is a chronic corneal pathology, in which, due to an alteration of the collagen that constitutes it causing a weakening of the cornea, thinning and deformity causing an alteration in its shape and irregular astigmatism. All this produces a progressive...