Serious Symptoms Of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia

Cataracts Or Glaucoma

A cataract is a condition where an individual's lens in the eye becomes clouded and causes problems with their vision. Cataracts make colors look faded, cause sunlight to feel too bright, make seeing at night difficult, produce double vision, and require frequent changes in eyewear prescriptions. Glaucoma is an umbrella term used to describe a category of eye conditions where an individual's optic nerve becomes damaged because of too much pressure accumulating in the eye. Individuals who develop glaucoma have patchy blind spots in their central or peripheral vision and experience tunnel vision frequently. Other symptoms of glaucoma include severe headache, nausea, blurred vision, vomiting, halos around lights, redness of the eye, and eye pain. The exact mechanism that causes cataracts and glaucoma to develop in Diamond-Blackfan anemia is not known, but it is thought to be related to certain genetic mutations that are associated with this form of anemia.