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Renal Artery Stenosis, the Heart, and Receiving Disability

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Your renal arteries are the arteries that transport blood from your heart to your kidneys. Your renal arteries branch directly off of your aorta, which is the primary artery that comes from your heart. Your renal arteries branch on both sides of your aorta and run down to each one of your kidneys.

Your renal arteries carry an extremely large amount of blood to your kidneys where it is filtered. Around 5 liters of blood are pumped out by your heart every minute. Of this amount, about 1 to 1.5 liters or 25% of this amount goes through your kidneys every minute.

Renal artery stenosis (narrowing) is a condition that is marked by a decrease in the diameter of your renal arteries. This narrowing of your renal arteries may bring about hypertension (high blood pressure) that is known as renovascular hypertension and an impairment in the way in which your kidneys are working.

Renal artery stenosis is one of the primary things that result in renovascular hypertension. In fact, renal artery stenosis is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 10% of the 50 million instances of high blood pressure in the United States.

If both of your renal arteries are affected by renal artery stenosis, it results in kidney failure. Your renal function gets progressively worse when there is a decrease in the flow of blood to both of your kidneys. Renovascular hypertension is the result of only one of your renal arteries being narrowed by renal artery stenosis. If you are afflicted with renal artery stenosis, you may be entitled to social security disability benefits like SSI or SSDI. The only way to know for sure is by going to one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com are there to help you get the disability benefits that are rightfully yours.

Most of the time, renal artery stenosis is a result of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis refers to a narrowing and hardening that takes place in the blood vessel wall inside of an artery. This process that occurs inside of your renal arteries is similar to what happens inside of blood vessels in your heart and other areas of your body.

There are some risk factors that may increase your likelihood of developing atherosclerosis. Some of these are:

  • Diabetes
  • Getting older
  • High levels of cholesterol
  • Smoking
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure).

 

There are some things that are less common causes of renal artery stenosis. These include:

    • Division and tearing of your blood vessel wall (dissection)
    • Fibromuscular dysplasia of your blood vessels
    • Inflammation of your blood vessel (arteritis)

There are some signs and symptoms that may be an indication of renal artery stenosis. Some of these are:

    • Pulmonary edema (sudden accumulation of fluid in the air sacs of your lungs)
    • Narrowing of other arteries in your body
    • Kidneys that are not functioning well, which may develop suddenly
    • Hypertension that is hard to control or gets worse suddenly
    • Hypertension that occurs at a young age.
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Myeloproliferative Disorders and Receiving Disability

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Myeloproliferative disorders are a group of blood (hematologic) diseases that involve the making of blood cells in your bone marrow. Myeloproliferative disorders are marked by an excessive amount of certain kinds of cells being made.

In particular, the blood cells that are affected by myeloproliferative disorders are platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells. Platelets help stop bleeding by leading to the formation of blood clots. White blood cells fight against infection and disease, and red blood cells take oxygen and nutrients to all of the tissues of your body.

There are several different kinds of myeloproliferative disorders. Some of these include chronic myelogenous leukemia, essential or primary thrombocytosis, idiopathic or primary myelofibrosis and polycythemia vera.

Myeloproliferative disorders are diseases that may affect anyone. They may also take place at any age of life. Do you have one of the myeloproliferative disorders? If this is the case, you may qualify for some type of social security disability, such as SSI or SSDI. A really smart move on your part would be to get in touch with one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com, to explore the options that you have for getting disability benefits. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com are the ones to turn to in matters of disability benefits.

Each one of the diseases that are classified as being one of the myeloproliferative disorders is brought about by an excessive amount of one or more kinds of blood cells being produced. However, at the present time, no one knows what causes or triggers this overproduction of blood cells. Researchers theorize that environment and genetics play important roles in leading to myeloproliferative disorders.

Depending on the particular myeloproliferative disorder, there are some risk factors that may increase your risk for developing one of these diseases. Some of these are:

Ÿ  Exposure to intense radiation, petrochemicals (toluene and benzene) or electrical wiring

Ÿ  Being over the age of 60, but for one of the diseases, being between the ages of 45 and 50.

With most of the diseases that make up myeloproliferative disorders, men are at a greater risk for having them than women are. The exception to this is primary or essential thrombocytosis. Women are more likely to get this disease than men are.

In most instances, when you are first diagnosed with one of the myeloproliferative disorders, you may not be having any signs or symptoms at all. One sign or symptom that is common to all of the myeloproliferative disorders except for primary thrombocytosis is an enlarged spleen that may result in a feeling of fullness and abdominal pain. Some other signs and symptoms of the various myeloproliferative disorders include:

Ÿ  Fever and night sweats

Ÿ  Unintentional weight loss or loss of your appetite

Ÿ  Headache and difficulties with your vision

Ÿ  Fatigue

Ÿ  Malaise (general sick feeling or just not feeling well)

Ÿ  Problems with your breathing

Ÿ  Joint and bone pain

Ÿ  Anemia

Ÿ  Abnormal bleeding

Ÿ  Swelling of your hands and feet

Ÿ  Redness and throbbing or burning pain

Ÿ  Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Ÿ  Stroke

Ÿ  Heart attack.

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Polycythemia Vera and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Polycythemia vera is one of a group of diseases that are referred to as myeloproliferative disorders. Polycythemia vera is a blood disease that is marked by your bone marrow producing an excessive amount of red blood cells.

Polycythemia vera may also cause an overproduction of other kinds of blood cells, such as platelets and white blood cells. However, with polycythemia vera, it is the excessive amount of red blood cells that results in the thickening of your blood and that are responsible for most of the issues that are related to this disease.

Polycythemia vera is referred to in other ways. It is also known as cryptogenic polycythemia, erythrocytosis megalosplenica, myelopathic polycythemia, polycythemia with chronic cyanosis, Osler’s disease, Vaquez’s disease, splenomegalic polycythemia, erythremia, polycythemia rubra vera and primary polycythemia.

Polycythemia vera is brought about by a defect (mutation) that takes place in one of your bone marrow cells that leads to difficulty with blood cell production. Researchers believe that this defect affects a protein switch that makes your blood cells grow. Scientists believe that it is a defect that is referred to as the JAK2 V617F mutation.

More than 95% of the people who are afflicted with polycythemia vera also have this defect. However, researchers have not yet discovered what causes this mutation to take place. They do think that the defect is something that you acquire rather than inherit from your parents.

There are some risk factors that may increase your likelihood of developing polycythemia vera. Some of these are:

  • Being exposed to intense radiation
  • Being older than age 60, although this disease may occur at any age of life
  • Being a man, because men are twice as likely to get this disease as women are
  • Having a family history of polycythemia vera.

If you have polycythemia vera, you may meet the medical requirements for social security disability like SSDI or SSI. The way to check on this is by looking at socialsecurityhome.com and getting the advice of one of the social security attorneys. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com are always ready to assist you in obtaining the disability benefits that you deserve.

In most cases, polycythemia vera does not produce any signs or symptoms at all in its early stages. However, as the disease advances, there are several different signs and symptoms that you may experience. Some of these include:

  • A feeling of bloating or fullness in your upper left abdomen that is the result of an enlarged spleen
  • Having problems with your breathing when you lie down
  • Itching that is especially prominent after you have taken a warm shower or bath
  • Headache and difficulty with your vision
  • Fatigue
  • Redness of your skin
  • Weakness, burning, numbness or tingling in your arms, hands, legs or feet
  • Dizziness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Purple patches or spots that show up on your skin
  • Blockage of your blood vessels that may lead to gangrene of your legs and arms, stroke or heart disease
  • High blood pressure (hypertension)
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Mummification and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Gangrene is a medical term that is used to refer to the decay and death of an area or part of your body. Gangrene may take place in any area of your body, but the parts of your body that are affected in most instances are your hands, fingers, toes and feet.

There are several different kinds of gangrene. Some of these are gas gangrene, wet gangrene, Fournier’s gangrene and internal gangrene.

Mummification is one of the types of gangrene. Mummification usually develops and progresses slowly.

Mummification is referred to in several other ways. It is also known as secondary gangrene, senile gangrene, Pott’s gangrene, native artery gangrene, dry gangrene and arteriosclerotic gangrene.

Mummification is characterized by dry and shriveled skin that ranges in color from brown to purplish-blue to black. In the case of mummification, your tissue becomes black and cold. Eventually, in time, your tissue that is affected by mummification will slough off.

Fortunately, mummification will not spread to other healthy tissue. Also, infection does not take place with mummification.

Mummification is the most prevalent kind of gangrene. Mummification takes place most of the time in people who have a blood vessel disease, such as diabetes or atherosclerosis.

Gangrene occurs when the blood supply to a part or area of your body is cut off. Any underlying condition or injury, or especially a combination of these two, may lead to gangrene of some kind.

In the case of mummification, it is a result of a reduction of blood flow in and through your arteries. This may be caused by several things. Some of these are:

Ÿ  Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Ÿ  Being exposed to extreme cold

Ÿ  Having some form of blood vessel disease

Ÿ  Having an arterial blockage that is the result of a thrombosis

Ÿ  Being a smoker

Ÿ  Having human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Ÿ  Having an arterial blockage that has been brought about by an embolism

Ÿ  Taking immunosuppressive medications

Ÿ  Taking chemotherapy treatment for some type of cancer

Ÿ  Having arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis

Ÿ  Having circulatory problems

Ÿ  Having some kind of surgery

Ÿ  Having diabetes mellitus

Ÿ  Experiencing some kind of trauma

Ÿ  Having high blood cholesterol.

There are some signs and symptoms that you need to watch out for that could be an indication of mummification. Some of the possible signs and symptoms include:

Ÿ  The area of your body that is affected becoming numb and cold

Ÿ  Pain that may start out as a dull ache but that quickly becomes extremely severe

Ÿ  The affected part of your body becoming black and shriveled

Ÿ  The area of your body that is affected becoming red at the beginning

Ÿ  Later on, the affected part of your body being a brown discoloration.

Mummification may be a disorder that has happened to you. As a result, you may need to check on getting social security disability benefits, such as SSDI or SSI. It would be worthwhile to call one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com. The attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com can help you get the disability benefits that are rightly yours.

 

 

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Pulseless Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, August 26th, 2011
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Vasculitis is a large inclusive medical term for a class of uncommon diseases that are characterized by inflammation of your blood vessels. Your vascular system is composed of the blood vessels of your body.

In turn, your blood vessels are made up of arteries that transport oxygen-rich blood to the tissues and cells of your body. Your vascular system is also composed of veins that take oxygen-depleted blood from your tissues to your lungs to get more oxygen.

Vasculitis is marked by inflammation in and damage to the walls of different blood vessels in your body. Each one of this category of diseases is distinguished by distribution of blood vessel involvement, certain patterns of particular organ involvement and laboratory test abnormalities. As a group, these diseases are referred to as vasculitides.

Pulseless disease is a rare kind of vasculitis. Your aorta is the large artery that takes blood from your heart to the rest of your body. If you have pulseless disease, your aorta is hurt by inflammation. Pulseless disease also causes inflammation in the main branches of your aorta.

Pulseless disease is known by other names. It is also referred to as Takayasu’s arteritis and aortic arch syndrome.

Dr. Mikito Takayasu was the one who first described this syndrome. He described it in 1908.

Pulseless disease can take place in anyone, at any age, and this disease takes place in all races. Having said that, pulseless disease develops most often in Asian women who are between the ages of 15 and 30. In fact, women are 8 to 9 times more prone to develop pulseless disease than men are.

The cause of pulseless disease in not known at this time. Researchers think that it may be an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is one in which your immune system that attacks anything foreign that invades your body, for some unknown reason, attacks healthy tissues and cells of your own body.

There are some signs and symptoms that are characteristic of pulseless disease in its early stages. Some of these that you may experience include:

Ÿ  Weight loss that is fast and unintentional

Ÿ  Night sweats

Ÿ  Muscle or joint pain

Ÿ  Skin rash

Ÿ  Fatigue

Ÿ  Abdominal pain

Ÿ  Occasional low-grade fever.

As pulseless disease advances and progresses, it may result in the narrowing of your arteries. Then, you may also begin to experience other signs and symptoms. Some of these are:

Ÿ  A feeling of weakness that comes about from mild anemia

Ÿ  Absent or diminished pulse in your wrists

Ÿ  Disturbances that occur in your vision

Ÿ  Blood pressure that is not the same in each one of your arms

Ÿ  High blood pressure in your lung arteries that can result in shortness of breath and fatigue (pulmonary hypertension)

Ÿ  High blood pressure (hypertension)

Ÿ  Dizziness

Ÿ  Notching of your upper ribs

Ÿ  Atrophy of your facial skin

Ÿ  Pigmentation of your facial skin

Ÿ  Chest pain

Ÿ  Transient weakness on one side of your body

Ÿ  Weakness or pain in your arm when you use it (claudication)

Ÿ  Increased gamma globulin levels in your blood

Ÿ  Headaches and lightheadedness.

Pulseless disease, along with complications that have resulted from it or other disorders that you may have in conjunction with this disease, may be the reason why you are incapacitated and cannot work. Because of this, you may have applied for financial help from the Social Security Administration by filing for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits.

Did the Social Security Administration turn down your application? Did you file an appeal? Was it denied, also? Are you trying to decide what you should do now?

The attorney at socialsecurityhome.com is the one who can advise you on what to do now. Do not put this off. Turn to socialsecurityhome.com, right now.

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Lipoid Nephrosis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Lipoid nephrosis is a disorder of your kidneys that may result in nephrotic syndrome. It is a kidney disorder that is marked by large amounts of protein being lost in your urine.

Lipoid nephrosis occurs most often in very young children (peak incidence at 2-3 years of age), but this disorder also develops in older children and adults. Lipoid nephrosis accounts for around 90% of all the cases of nephrotic syndrome in children who are less than 10 years of age. About 50% of the cases of nephrotic syndrome in teenagers are caused by lipoid nephrosis. In adults with nephrotic syndrome, about 20% of the cases are due to lipoid nephrosis. Boys seem to be more likely to get lipoid nephrosis than girls in children who are less than 10 years of age.

The cause of lipoid nephrosis is unknown. Doctors usually put this disorder in two categories, primary and secondary.

Primary means that lipoid nephrosis develops independently of any other medical condition, for no discernable reason. This is by far the most common type of this disorder.

Secondary means that lipoid nephrosis is caused by, or at least involved with, another medical condition. This type of the disease is rare.

Adults are usually affected by secondary lipoid nephrosis. It is usually associated with:

  • Allergy that may involve many environmental allergies
  • Drugs like lithium, bisphosphonates, NSAIDs and some antibiotics
  • Malignancy like leukemia or lymphoma
  • Infection, such as HIV, syphilis or hepatitis.

The hallmark sign or symptom of lipoid nephrosis is swelling (edema) that is due to fluid retention. This swelling may be substantial. It usually starts in your legs and feet, but it can move into your abdomen and hips as well.

Another primary sign or symptom of lipoid nephrosis is proteinuria. This is too much protein in your urine.

Edema and proteinuria can begin rapidly – almost overnight. There are also other signs and symptoms that you may experience with lipoid nephrosis. These include:

  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Tendency to form blood clots
  • High cholesterol.

Unlike other kidney disorders, lipoid nephrosis does not usually affect your kidneys ability to filter or clean your blood.

None of the signs and symptoms listed above, or all of them taken together, are specific only to lipoid nephrosis. Only your doctor can determine if you have this disorder.

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Glomerulonephritis-Mesangial Proliferative and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
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Glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative is one of the forms of glomerulonephritis. It is a kidney disorder that is evidenced by edema (swelling) and hematuria (blood in your urine).

Glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative is a disorder that results from inflammation of your glomerulus, which is an internal kidney structure. More specifically, this disorder is the result of an increase in the number of certain glomerular cells that are known as mesangial cells. This is along with antibody deposits in the mesangium layer of your glomerular capillary.

Glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative is believed by researchers to be an autoimmune disorder because the inflammation of your glomeruli is connected with deposits of antibodies. When your immune system is working properly, it produces antibodies in your blood that are used to fight against anything foreign that is invading your body like a bacteria, virus, or infection. For some unknown reason, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system abnormally makes extra antibodies in your blood that are directed against various tissues in your body. In other words, your body attacks its own cells and tissues.

Glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative affects both adults and children. Men are affected slightly more often than women. Fortunately, it is a relatively uncommon disorder.

As mentioned earlier, glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative is caused by inflammation of an internal kidney structure (glomerulus), and specifically, an increase in the number of certain glomerular cells (mesangial cells). This is along with antibody deposits in the mesangium layer of your glomerular capillary. The problem is that no one knows what causes this increase to take place.

There are several different signs and symptoms that you may experience which may be an indication that you have glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative. Some of the possible signs and symptoms include:

  • High blood pressure (Hypertension)
  • Protein in your urine (proteinuria)
  • Foamy appearance of your urine
  • Poor appetite
  • Swelling (edema) that can take place around your eyes, in your extremities, in your abdomen or that can be generalized
  • Bloody urine (hematuria) or cola-colored or tea-colored urine (dark urine)
  • Unintentional increase in weight that results from the retention of fluid.

You or a loved one may be suffering from glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative. Glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative and/or complications that have developed from it or other conditions that you have along with this disorder may have caused the disability of you or your loved one. This disorder may be the reason why you are not able to work.

If this is your situation, you may need help. You may need financial assistance.

You or your loved one may be intending to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability that has been brought about by glomerulonephritis-mesangial proliferative and/or complications that have developed from it or other conditions that you have along with this disorder. You may have already taken this step, and your application was denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one is planning on reapplying or appealing the denial, there is a vital fact that you really ought to remember that you may not be aware of. It is an established fact that people who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer in their corner.

Please do not hesitate or put this off until tomorrow. This is something that may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Membranous Nephropathy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, July 29th, 2011
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Your kidneys are located in your abdomen toward the back. Normally, one is situated on each side of your spine.

Your kidneys have a critical part to play in your body functioning like it should. Your kidneys filter your blood and remove waste products. They also control your blood pressure, balance the levels of electrolytes in your body and stimulate the production of red blood cells.

Membranous nephropathy is a slowly progressive kidney disease. It is one of the more common types of nephrotic syndrome.

Membranous nephropathy is a kidney disorder that is characterized by inflammation and changes of the glomerulus and glomerular basement membrane inside your kidney that help filter fluids and waste. The glomeruli are the inner structures of your kidney that include small capillaries that are surrounded by membranes through which your blood is filtered to become urine. This inflammation results in difficulties with your kidneys working like they should.

Membranous nephropathy is most common in people between the ages of 30 and 50. It develops in approximately 2 out of every 10,000 people in the United States. About 40% of people with membranous nephropathy develop end-stage renal (kidney) failure after 10 years.

There are two kinds of membranous nephropathy. About 80 to 85% are considered to be primary membranous nephropathy. This means the cause of the disorder is not known (idiopathic). The other type is referred to as secondary membranous nephropathy.

Membranous nephropathy results from thickening of part of the glomerular basement membrane. As just mentioned, why this occurs is not known with the primary kind of this disorder. The secondary form of membranous nephropathy may result from:

  • Certain medications, such as captopril and NSAIDs
  • Malignant tumors, especially carcinoma of the lung and colon and melanoma
  • Autoimmune conditions like lupus
  • Inorganic salts
  • Infections like hepatitis B, syphilis and malaria.

In many instances there are no signs or symptoms with membranous nephropathy. If signs and symptoms are present, they will usually vary. Some of the signs and symptoms that you may experience include:

  • A foamy appearance to your urine
  • Edema (swelling) in any part of your body
  • Poor appetite
  • Excessive urination, especially at night
  • Unintended weight gain
  • High blood pressure.
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Glomerular Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Friday, July 1st, 2011
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Your kidneys are complex organs whose main job is to remove unneeded electrolytes, excess fluid and wastes from your body. Any condition or disorder that interferes with the work of your kidneys can lead to a potentially dangerous accumulation of waste products in your bloodstream.

Glomerular disease is a type of kidney disease that hinders the function of your kidneys to remove excess fluids and waste. Glomerular disease can be a part of a systemic disease like lupus or diabetes, or it can be a disease by itself. If this is the case, it is known as primary glomerular disease.

Glomerular disease can be acute. This is when there is a sudden attack of inflammation.

Glomerular disease can also be chronic (on-going). It develops gradually when it is chronic.

Often, at the beginning, the cause of glomerular disease is unknown. Some of the known causes of this disease are infections like bacterial endocarditis and viral infections, immune diseases like vasculitis and lupus and conditions that scar your glomeruli like hypertension (high blood pressure) and diabetic kidney disease.

 

Chronic glomerular disease sometimes develops after an episode of acute glomerular disease. Other people have no history of kidney disease at all. The first indication of chronic glomerular disease may be chronic kidney failure. Sometimes, this disease runs in families. In many cases of chronic glomerular disease the cause is not known.

The signs and symptoms that you experience with glomerular disease depend on whether you have the acute or chronic form of the disease. They may also be determined by the cause of your glomerular disease.

The first thing that may indicate that you have glomerular disease may be the results of a routine urinalysis. Possible signs and symptoms are:

  • Decrease in frequency of urination
  • Fatigue and weakness from anemia or kidney failure
  • Foam in your toilet water due to protein in your urine (proteinuria)
  • Edema (fluid retention) along with swelling in your abdomen, hands, feet and face
  • Diluted iced-tea-colored urine resulting from hematuria (red blood cells in your urine)
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure).

If you have chronic glomerular disease you may gradually start to experience some of these signs and symptoms:

 

  • Generalized itching
  • Decrease in alertness
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Bruising or bleeding easily
  • Malaise (general sick feeling)
  • Muscle twitching and muscle cramps
  • Headache
  • Frequent hiccups
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Headache and seizures.

You or a loved one may be afflicted with glomerular disease. Glomerular disease and/or complications that have been caused by it or other disorders that you have besides this disease may have led to you or your loved one’s disability and be the reason why you cannot work.

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Early-Onset Glaucoma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Thursday, June 30th, 2011
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Early-Onset Glaucoma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Glaucoma has the nickname “sneak thief of sight” because the loss of your visual field often takes place gradually over a long period of time and may only be discovered when it is already well advanced. In fact, as many as half of the people with glaucoma are not aware that they have this disorder.

Glaucoma is a major problem all over the world. Worldwide, glaucoma is the number one cause of irreversible blindness. In fact, as many as 6 million individuals are blind in both eyes because of this disorder. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 3 million people have glaucoma.

Glaucoma occurs most often in older adults. The risk of older adults developing glaucoma can be affected by several different medical conditions. These include family history, hypertension (high blood pressure) and diabetes mellitus.

When an individual develops glaucoma before the age of 40, it is referred to as early-onset glaucoma. The risk of getting early-onset glaucoma is primarily determined by heredity.

There are different forms of early-onset glaucoma. These include primary congenital glaucoma and juvenile open-angle glaucoma.

Early-onset glaucoma occurs most often as a result of inheriting a defective (mutated) gene from your parents. Depending on the type of early-onset glaucoma that you have, you may inherit the possibility of developing this disorder in either an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive pattern. If you get the defective gene from one of your parents, it is autosomal dominant. It is autosomal recessive if your get the mutated gene from both of your parents.

Although early-onset glaucoma is usually due to inheriting a defective gene from your parents, for reasons that doctors do not totally understand, intraocular pressure (increased pressure within your eye) is what is associated with the damage to your optic nerve that marks early-onset glaucoma. You could think of it in this way. The defective gene is what causes the increased pressure to take place in your eye. The increased pressure is what actually damages your optic nerve resulting in early-onset glaucoma.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may have with early-onset glaucoma. Some of these are:

  • Excessive tearing
  • Abnormal sensitivity to light
  • Eventual blindness
  • Reduction in peripheral (side) vision
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