H53-H54.9 Visual Disturbances and Blindness
- (H53.0) Amblyopia (lazy eye) — poor or blurry vision due to either no transmission or poor transmission of the visual image to the brain
- (H53.0) Leber's congenital amaurosis — genetic disorder; appears at birth, characterised by sluggish or no pupillary responses
- (H53.1, H53.4) Scotoma (blind spot) — an area impairment of vision surrounded by a field of relatively well-preserved vision. See also Anopsia.
- (H53.5) Color blindness — the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish
- (H53.5) Achromatopsia / Maskun — a low cone count or lack of function in cone cells
- (H53.6) Nyctalopia (Nightblindness) — a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in the dark
- (H54) Blindness — the brain does not receive optical information, through various causes
- (H54/B73) River blindness — blindness caused by long-term infection by a parasitic worm (rare in western societies)
- (H54.9) Micropthalmia/coloboma — a disconnection between the optic nerve and the brain and/or spinal cord
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