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Symptom: Vision loss

Vision loss: Impaired vision or loss of vision
Detailed cause information for symptom: Vision loss:

Possible causes of symptom: Vision loss (53 conditions)

Medical conditions causing symptom: Vision loss (54 conditions)

Medical conditions causing complication: Vision loss (37 conditions)

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Types of Vision loss: blindness (23), night blindness (3), blind spot (9), peripheral vision loss (5)
Vision loss type of: Vision changes (114)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions

Possible causes of symptom: Vision loss: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Vision loss as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

Central vision loss (see Vision changes) - with possible causes of central vision loss such as:
- Blind spot
- Cataracts
- Macular degeneration
- Macular hole
- Optic neuritis - may cause unilateral sudden central vision loss.
- Multiple sclerosis - because it may cause optic neuritis
- Brain tumors
- Brain aneurysm
Peripheral vision loss - with possible causes of peripheral vision loss such as:
- Blind spot
- Retinal detachment
Some possible causes of vision loss include:
- Eye injury
- Macular degeneration
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Cataracts
- Glaucoma
- Certain eye diseases
- Retinal conditions
- Retinal tear
- Retinopathy
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Optic nerve compression
- Increased intracranial pressure
- Bilateral papilloedema
- Malignant hypertension (type of Hypertension)
- Bilateral occipital lobe infarct
- Bilateral optic neuritis
- Giant cell arteritis
- Carotid atherosclerosis
Some possible causes of vision loss in one eye (unilaterial vision loss) may include:
- Optic neuritis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Retinal conditions
- Retinal tear
- Retinal detachment
- Vitreous hemorrhage
- Giant cell arteritis
- Amaurosis fugax
- Central retinal vein occlusion
- Central retinal artery occlusion
See also causes of vision impairment, blindness, blurred vision, or night blindness

Conditions listing symptoms: Vision loss: The following list of conditions have 'Vision loss' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

Age-related macular degeneration ... blind spot

Alveolar Hydatid Disease ... blindness

Anencephaly ... blindness

Arteriovenous Malformation ... vision loss

B

Batten Disease ... vision loss

C

Canavan disease ... blindness

Cataracts ... degraded night vision

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder ... occasional partial sight loss

Choroiditis ... gradual blindness in one eye

Classic childhood ALD ... visual loss

Closed-angle glaucoma ... vision deterioration

Congenital Toxoplasmosis ... vision loss

Craniosynostosis ... blindness

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ... blindness

D

Dry Eye ... degraded vision

E

Ebola ... blindness

F

Fuchs' Dystrophy ... vision improvement during the day

G

Glaucoma ... peripheral vision deterioration, degraded side vision, vision deterioration, dim peripheral vision

H

Hemianopia ... loss of half the visual field in each eye

HIV/AIDS ... vision loss

Hydranencephaly ... blindness

Hyperopia ... difficulty focusing for reading

Hysteria ... blindness

I

Incontinentia Pigmenti ... diminished vision

Infantile Refsum Disease ... visual impairments

K

Krabbé Disease ... blindness

L

Leber's hereditary optic atrophy ... progressive visual impairment

M

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy ... blindness

Mitochondrial diseases ... blindness

Multiple Sclerosis ... blindness in one eye

N

Neurofibromatosis-1 ... progressive vision loss

Niemann-Pick disease ... progressive vision loss

Night blindness ... night blindness

O

Ocular histoplasmosis syndrome ... blind spot

Open-angle glaucoma ... peripheral vision deterioration, degraded side vision, dim peripheral vision

Optic neuritis ... vision loss in one eye

P

Presbyopia ... difficulty focusing for reading

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy ... vision loss

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy ... vision difficulties

R

Refsum Disease ... vision impairments

Retinal detachment ... blank area in visual field

Retinitis Pigmentosa ... peripheral vision loss

Retinoblastoma ... vision loss in one eye

Retinopathy ... dark areas in field of vision, Peripheral vision loss

S

Sandhoff Disease ... early blindness

Septo-Optic Dysplasia ... blindness in one eye, blindness (both eyes)

Stroke ... dim vision, trouble seeing in both eyes, trouble seeing in one eye

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis ... Blindness

Syphilis ... blindness

T

Tay Sachs ... blindness

Transient Ischemic Attack ... trouble seeing in both eyes, trouble seeing in one eye

U

Usher Syndrome ... peripheral vision loss

V

Vitamin A deficiency ... night blindness

W

Wegener's granulomatosis ... decrease in vision

Conditions listing complications: Vision loss: The following list of conditions have 'Vision loss' or similar listed as a complication in our database. The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.