Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.
When considering the likelihood of retinal breaks and their recovery without damaging vision, comparisons of the hazard ratios of TA-assisted PPV and conventional PPV would be valid only if made by individuals who qualify as PPV specialists.
There could be some pathos and reach in this scenario and in the ways it plays itself out, but Houellebecq's range, which always veers quickly and self-consciously from disgust to sentimentality, does not want to allow for simple humanity; it would be too damaging to his vision.
While vision-damaging complications from Lasik surgery are rare, they have so far been nonexistent with L.T.K. Patients typically report a scratchy feeling in the eyes and the only complication reported so far is that in 1 percent or fewer the scratchy sensation persists for months.
Just when some people here were starting to feel good about this city, the bombs are dropping again on Bridgeport, unleashing charges that could be more damaging to its long-term vision of itself than any explosive device.
The New Hampshire event was part of a campaign to fight questionable but potentially damaging charges that the president's vision would inevitably lead to "socialized medicine," "rationed care" and even forced euthanasia for the elderly.
They are demanding a more radical vision: the transformation of a damaging culture that pushes people to aspire desperately to something they may never be able to achieve.
By keeping it on the table, Davies is saying you have a choice - between a damaging U-turn or a radical new vision for expansion," he said.
Yet, ironically, the most damaging charge the new opera levels at a man whose vision continues to dominate children's culture is probably the claim that he did little actual work on the drawings that made him famous.
Although a high level of transparency to visible light is obviously desirable for optimal vision, the transmission of UV light is potentially damaging to the lens and retina.
Merwin's occasional tendency to transcribe rather than translate can be particularly damaging in the substantive passages that convey the heart of Dante's moral and theological vision.
