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Visual field defects
Visual field defects are problems with portions of a person's field of view. He can be missing one or more sections of the total image he should be able to see.
Dr. Robert Kwok reviewed this
35 year experience in Pediatrics
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A 38-year old asked:
Are visual field defects present in glaucoma?
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A 34-year old asked:
Ideas? What nonprocessive conditions cause a visual field defect?
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A 41-year old asked:
Can you tell me: are visual field defects always present in glaucoma?
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A 40-year old asked:
Is there any related color vision problem associated with visual field defects?
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A 42-year old asked:
Are visual field defects always present in glaucoma patients?
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A 47-year old asked:
Are visual field defects always present in patients with glaucoma?
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A 38-year old asked:
Am I supposed to see a special consultant opthalmologist for visual field defects?
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A 44-year old asked:
Is it true that the bigger the visual field defect, the worser the brain has been damaged?
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A 44-year old asked:
Is it true that the more your brain is damaged the larger your visual field defect will be?
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A 34-year old asked:
Is it true that the bigger the visual field defect, the worse the brain is actually damaged?
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A 46-year old asked:
Can medical conditions in the brain, excluding strokes or tumors, cause a visual field defect?
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A 41-year old asked:
How big of a visual field defect would be an eye problem while driving?
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A 28-year old male asked:
A Neuro ophthalmologist diagnosed me with myopic degeneration, deficiency of saccadic eye movements, irregular eye movements and sector or arcuate visual field defects due to high myopia. I've had symptoms for 8 years, what medical condition is this?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Is vision therapy rehabilitation helpful for irregular eye movements, deficiency of saccadic eye movements, enlarged blind spots, myopic degeneration, and sector or arcuate visual field defects? opthalmologist said I have this because of high myopia?
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A 45-year old asked:
What is a visual fields test?
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A 41-year old asked:
What are constricted visual fields?
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A 32-year old asked:
What causes dark spots in your visual field?
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A 46-year old asked:
Can you tell me about the visual field test?
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A 48-year old asked:
What are these colorful spots in the visual field?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Constricted visual fields?
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A 64-year old female asked:
What does it mean to have a full visual field indicated on a visual field test. Is that good?
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A 59-year old female asked:
Visual field test 2 mos. Apart w/fixation loss of 6/12 in 1st test & 3/14 in 2nd test. 1st test showed more damage than 2nd. Which test is most right?
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A 48-year old asked:
I have visual trails (bursts of light that cross my visual field). Never happened before, please help?
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A 48-year old asked:
If our pupils did get very small, would this limit our visual field?
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A 59-year old female asked:
How often should you have a visual field test when you have glaucoma?
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A male asked:
Can having excessive amounts of caffeine cause you to fail the visual field test,?
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A 45-year old asked:
The broken visual field that sometimes accompanies a migraine - what is the medical name for it?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Can cataract impact humphrey visual field test?
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A 40-year old asked:
I'm suffering from visual field loss due to small lesion in pulvinar. Is this curable?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Hi, my father has a shortness a visual field. What can we do for that? He is 52 years old and he has a diabetes. Thanks...
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