Glaucoma is a slowly progressive disease characterised by a rise in the pressure inside the eye. This pressure has nothing to do with the blood pressure your family doctor measures on your arm: it is measured during an eye examination, and the patient does not feel it. This is the key point. Glaucoma takes away...Read More

In the new headquarters of the Blue Eye Clinic in Milan in Via Pantano 2, we have all the technologies that are available today for the correction and treatment of patients who are suffering from keratoconus. We want to appeal to these patients, who are increasingly difficult to manage as they are managed by optician...Read More

Video Transcription: Floaters, also called “flying flies” in Latin, are a very frequent symptom that leads patients to worry and prompts them to go for an eye examination. Floaters can be divided, from an anatomopathological point of view, into benign floaters, which are these small flies, small cobwebs, floating opacities within the visual field that...Read More

Diabetes mellitus is a hereditary illness caused by an alteration in sugar metabolism: diabetes causes alteration of blood vessels throughout the body, in particular, small vessels (capillaries), which carry blood to the tissues and exchange oxygen with for nourishment. Diabetic retinopathy is a localized manifestation of diabetes. Although every eye structure may be affected by...Read More

Cataract is the opacification of the natural crystalline lens. This lens allows the parallel light rays to focus on the retina that are coming from an object that is placed at infinity. It is not necessarily synonymous with old age: it usually affects the ones at the age of fifty but some factors can anticipate its...Read More

 Video Transcription: The vitreous, which when we are born is an integral part of the retina (where the retina ends, the vitreous begins and where the vitreous ends, the retina begins), has a supporting role for the retina itself and is inseparable. In children and adults, the vitreous is attached to the retina and...Read More