Actual cases diagnosed and photographed though one of our comprehensive eye examinations

Note: All of these photos are of patients seen at our office. Many of these are of the extreme case, and are not meant to alarm you, but only to educate you on the amount of information the eye can provide to the trained observer.

HYPERTENSION:                        NORMAL RETINA

Extreme High Blood Pressure,: 260/160 of a patient thinking all they needed were reading glasses. Notice all the bleeding. This patient is at high risk for stroke.		Chronic, low Grade High Blood Pressure: Notice at 12:00 how the lighter vessel pinches off the darker vessel.
CORNEAL ABRASION		PTERYGIUM
Corneal abrasion from a patient sleeping in their contacts.		Excessive drying caused by wind and sun. Very common in Southwestern United States. This needs to be surgically excised.
STYE		GPC (Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis)
This was a very inflamed stye that was treated with eye drops and oral antibiotics.		White bumps on underside of lid from a dirty contact lens. This is NOT contangious.
HERPES EYE INFECTION		CORNEAL ULCER
This is a patient who a week prior had a cold sore that ended up with Hepres(viral) eye infection.		Residual scar (gray-white circle) of a corneaucler. This patient was hospitalized in order to save the eye.
RETINAL DETACHMENT
Beginning Retinal Detachment. Notice the lighter color at the top left of the picture between 10:30 and 12:30. Our Digital photography enables one to see the whitish curved line, which is the leading edge of the detachment. This patient was immediately referred for retinal surgery 5 hours later, and today is perfectly fine
Advanced Retinal Detachment: This patient waited 1 week before coming to the office. Unfortunately, even after surgery ,this patient lost most of the vision in this eye.
DIABETIC RETINOPATHY (DIABETES)
Diabetic Retinopathy: This patient was unaware that they had diabetes at the time of their exam. Notice the spotty bleeding outside the blood vessels.
NORMAL EYE:
The lighter circle at 3 o‘ clock is the Optic nerve (also 3:00 in the graphic). The darker orange color in the center is the macula. The “tree branches” are the blood vessels. The light ones are the arteries, the darker color are the veins. Notice the rather uniform orange color and there are no spots outside the blood vessels.
MACULAR DEGENERATION
Early Macula Degeneration: Notice the yellow spots in the center of the picture (by the macula)		Advanced macular Degeneration
End stage Dry Macular Degeneration		Wet form (bleeding) of Macular Degeneration
BRAIN TUMOR: (Papilledema)		STROKE
The Optic Nerve looks puffy and swollen (you can hardly see it. The outer circumference is poorly defined. This patient thought they needed stronger glasses for night driving.		This is called a branch vein occlusion, which is a clogged vein in the retina. This is essentially a mild stroke which occurred in the back of the eye. Notice the spots (bleeding) at center.
GLAUCOMA:
Notice the large white center in the middle of the optic nerve (yellowish circle)		NORMAL HEALTHY OPTIC NERVE
PINGQUECULA		SUBCONJUNTIVAL HEMORRAGE
Bump or growth on the white of the eye (sclera)caused by wind and sun. Usually has no effect on vision.		This was caused by sneezing.
PRE-RETINAL HEMORRAGE		HISTO PLASMOSIS
Spontaneous hemorrhage in the back of the eye. Patient saw a shadow in their line of sight.		This patient grewup along a river and as a child ingested pigeon dung. This fungus usually settles in the lungs, and sometimes in the eye. The disease shows up as the white punched out spots.
CORNEAL WARPAGE (KERATOCONUS)
Notice the the perfectly circular rings on the left photo. Notice the distorted rings on the right photo. This patient cannot get clear vision with glasses, and must be fit with a rigid gas permeable lens or face corneal transplant surgery.(Photo taken at Skowron Eyecare with a corneascope)
CATARACT LENS IMPLANT		CORNEAL NEO VASCULARIZATION
		Blood vessels growing into the cornea due to complications from contact lenses.