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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Eye disorders
Keywords: Arc welding
Message-ID: <934@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 88 03:43:02 GMT
References: <963@uop.edu>
Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <963@uop.edu> todd@uop.edu (Used to be robert) writes:
>
>The reason I suspect the arc welding is that his central vision is
>dominantly effected, and the peripheral vision is not as markedly
>impaired.
>

Welding years ago is very unlikely to result in delayed damage.  Either
the retina is burned at the time or it isn't.  He probably has senile
macular degeneration, which even the most elderly of ophthalmologists
can probably tell him, since it is a common affliction, but diagnosis
without looking at his retina is impossible!