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Aniridia

How is it treated?

The condition is not curable but treatment with prescription of glasses, low vision aids and ensuring adequate help with schooling helps considerably. Complications of aniridia such as cataracts, glaucoma, corneal changes (abnormal loss of transparency and blood vessel growth) and squint can occur later in life and may reduce the vision further, but are treatable by medication or surgery.

Although many of those with aniridia will have a visual disability and are unlikely to develop enough vision to drive a car, most will have enough vision for a sighted education and cope well with the help of visual aids. It is rare to develop complete blindness.

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Medical text written October 2006 by Dr M Hingorani, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, UK.

 

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