The following symptoms and complaints may occur together with Increasing visual impairment:
Leading symptom
- Increasing visual impairment
Associated symptoms
- Veiled fundus (fundus of the eye); the fundus (= visible internal structures of the posterior pole of the bulbus oculi) includes:
- Retina (retina) with macula lutea (yellow spot).
- Arteria centralis retinae with its branches.
- Papilla nervi optici (optic nerve papilla).
- Hemorrhage
- Exudate
Warning signs (red flags)
- Increasing morning headache or protrusion of the eyeball + visual impairment → think of: Tumor
- Obscured fundus → think of: Cataract (cataract); other typical symptoms are: Sensation of glare, decrease in visual acuity, decreased perception of contrast, decrease in color perception or “foggy vision” (feeling as if looking through a “frosted glass”).
- Problems reading + distorted vision + things are perceived “around the corner” → think of: Macular degeneration (degenerative disease of the macula lutea/yellow spot of the retina).
- Visual impairment, increasing or recurrent + other neurological symptoms → think of: Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Visual impairment, increasing + mouches volantes (“mosquito vision”) + shadows in the visual field + sooty rain (sudden appearance of dense black or red spots in the visual field) → think of: Ablatio retinae (retinal detachment; emergency!).
