Sentence examples for reduction in visual acuity from inspiring English sources
The visual prognosis is poor and the majority of patients remain severely visually impaired secondary to the marked reduction in visual acuity and the dense scotoma in their visual fields.
We enlarged all the stimuli (including fragments and whole objects) corresponding to their intended eccentricity to help compensate for the progressive reduction in visual acuity with increasing eccentricity (see Materials and Methods for details).
Ten (5.8%) subjects had significant reduction in visual acuity.
Twenty-one subjects (6.8%) had significant reduction in visual acuity.
The edema may cause an additional reduction in visual acuity that often exceeds the primary ischemic damage, and thus represents an important treatment target.
A contact lens with central opacity reduces retinal illumination across the macula leading to a reduction in visual acuity and contrast sensitivity.
As linear changes are unlikely for patients with SAEs, we assumed that SAEs and reductions in visual acuity caused a sudden drop in utility on the day of onset, followed by a linear rise as the patient recovered; the rate of this linear rise was estimated using mixed models (see online supplementary appendix).
The reduction in IOP and improvement in visual acuity has subsequently been maintained over six months of follow-up.
In one case report of a single patient, with longstanding DMO which was unresponsive to ranibizumab, Bertelmann and Shulze reported reduction in oedema and gain in visual acuity following a switch from ranibizumab to fluocinolone implant [ 16].
7 The cost implications for neovascular AMD treatment are, however, balanced against savings associated with this treatment (improvement in visual acuity and reduction in cases of legal blindness).
The aim of the current article is to 1) report the case of a patient with advanced glaucoma at initial presentation that demonstrated marked improvement in visual acuity following reduction in intraocular pressure with trabeculectomy, and 2) to critically appraise the published literature as to whether functional improvement is possible following glaucoma surgery.
