Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Westfalen e.V. (BSVW)
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Der Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverein Westfalen e.V. (BSVW) mit Sitz in Dortmund ist die größte Selbsthilfeorganisation der in Westfalen lebenden blinden und sehbehinderten Menschen. Dachverband ist der Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband e.V. in Berlin. Als Patientenorganisation gibt der Verein zugleich Rat und Hilfe bei Sehverlust für Menschen mit einer Augenerkrankung, die zu dauerhafter Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit führen kann. Durch 35 Bezirksgruppen vor Ort und die vereinseigenen Einrichtungen verfügt der BSVW landesweit über ein Netz von hoch qualifizierten Beratungsstellen und Selbsthilfeangeboten. So ist der BSVW immer und überall für Sie da.
Der BSVW erfüllt ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige und mildtätige Aufgaben im Sinne der Abgabenordnung. Der BSVW ist wohlfahrtspflegerisch tätig. Er ist politisch, weltanschaulich und religiös neutral. Ziel des BSVW als Selbsthilfeorganisation ist die Beratung von Patienten mit Augenerkrankungen sowie die Erhaltung und Verbesserung der sozialen Stellung blinder und sehbehinderter Menschen in der Gesellschaft.
Der BSVW erfüllt ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige und mildtätige Aufgaben im Sinne der Abgabenordnung. Der BSVW ist wohlfahrtspflegerisch tätig. Er ist politisch, weltanschaulich und religiös neutral. Ziel des BSVW als Selbsthilfeorganisation ist die Beratung von Patienten mit Augenerkrankungen sowie die Erhaltung und Verbesserung der sozialen Stellung blinder und sehbehinderter Menschen in der Gesellschaft.
Care provisions
This support group organisation offers the following
- Social / legal advice
- Regular meetings
- Regional associations / regional representatives
- Newsletter / Association journal
Special offers
Beratung für Augenpatientinnen und -patienten durch zertifizierte, meist selbst betroffene Beraterinnen und Berater in ganz NRW (Kooperation mit dem BSV Nordrhein und dem Lippischen BSV) und Fachgruppen für spezielle Interessen z. B. Büroberufe, Führhundehalter, medizinisch-therapeutische Berufe, Taubblinde u.a.Preview of the represented diseases 2
Hereditary retinoblastoma
Rare disorder with strabismus
Genetic macular dystrophy
Early-onset anterior polar cataract
Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy
Congenital stromal corneal dystrophy
Meesmann corneal dystrophy
Retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy and systemic manifestations
Intermediate uveitis
Cogan syndrome
X-linked endothelial corneal dystrophy
Okihiro syndrome
Chondroectodermal dysplasia with night blindness
Cancer-associated retinopathy
Cryptophthalmia
Oculocutaneous albinism type 1
Congenital upper palpebral retraction
Anterior uveitis
Pediatric-onset glaucoma of genetic origin
Conjunctival telangiectasia
Aplasia of lacrimal and salivary glands
Oculofaciocardiodental syndrome
Norrie disease
Uveitis
Oculocutaneous albinism type 3
Usher syndrome type 1
Benign concentric annular macular dystrophy
Fundus pulverulentus
Oculoauricular syndrome, Schorderet type
IRVAN syndrome
Fleck corneal dystrophy
Isolated microphthalmia-anophthalmia-coloboma
Endophthalmitis
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
Bradyopsia
Peters anomaly-cataract syndrome
SRD5A3-CDG
Congenital malformation of the eyelid
Inherited retinal disorder
Retinitis punctata albescens
Idiopathic panuveitis
Rare disorder with ptosis
Conjunctival hemangioma or hemolymphangioma
Ligneous conjunctivitis
Non-infectious anterior uveitis
Revesz syndrome
Corneal intraepithelial dyskeratosis-palmoplantar hyperkeratosis-laryngeal dyskeratosis syndrome
Oculocutaneous albinism type 2
Idiopathic macular telangiectasia type 1
Blepharo-cheilo-odontic syndrome
Knobloch syndrome
Coralliform cataract
Stickler syndrome type 1
Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy
Coats disease
Epithelial basement membrane dystrophy
X-linked reticulate pigmentary disorder
Phacoanaphylactic uveitis
Central areolar choroidal dystrophy
Spasmus nutans
Hypomyelination-congenital cataract syndrome
X-linked recessive ocular albinism
Isolated distichiasis
Microcornea-myopic chorioretinal atrophy-telecanthus syndrome
Morning glory disc anomaly
Oculocutaneous albinism type 4
Serpiginous choroiditis
Septo-optic dysplasia spectrum
Eyelid border anomaly
Palpebral epidermal tumor
Familial retinal arterial macroaneurysm
Retinal macular dystrophy type 2
Pigmentation disorder with eye involvement
Pigmented conjunctival lesion
Syndromic disorder with strabismus
Glaucoma associated with neural crest cell migration anomaly
Congenital microcoria
Unclassified primitive or secondary maculopathy
Colobomatous and areolar dystrophy
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Cerulean cataract
Central cloudy dystrophy of François
Bothnia retinal dystrophy
Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy
Colobomatous microphthalmia
Oculocutaneous albinism
Micro syndrome
Sorsby pseudoinflammatory fundus dystrophy
Fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration
Childhood-onset autosomal recessive myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia
Congenital trigeminal anesthesia
Familial drusen
Retinal dystrophy with inner retinal dysfunction and ganglion cell anomalies
Oculocutaneous albinism type 1B
GAPO syndrome
Glaucoma-ectopia lentis-microspherophakia-stiff joints-short stature syndrome
Nuclear oculomotor paralysis
Congenital eyelid retraction
Congenital cornea plana
Microblepharon-ablephara syndrome
Åland Islands eye disease
Distal deletion 6p
Palpebral tumor
Pellucid marginal degeneration
Conjunctival lymphangiectasia
Congenital malformation of the eye with glaucoma as a major feature
Hypotrichosis with juvenile macular degeneration
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy plus syndrome
Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
Rare ophthalmic disorder
Congenital cataract microcornea with corneal opacity
Essential strabismus
Bulbar conjunctival dermoid or conjunctival dermolipoma
Anterior segment developmental anomaly without extraocular manifestations
EEM syndrome
Late-onset retinal degeneration
Coloboma of macula-brachydactyly type B syndrome
Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy
Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris
Gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina
Microtia-eye coloboma-imperforation of the nasolacrimal duct syndrome
Congenital ectropion uveae
Primary early-onset glaucoma
Congenital primary aphakia
Rare oculomotor nerve disorder
Systemic diseases with panuveitis
Microphthalmia, Lenz type
Vitreoretinopathy
Early-onset partial cataract
Precancerous lesion of palpebral epidermis
Retinal degeneration-nanophthalmos-glaucoma syndrome
Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy type I
Familial pterygium of the conjunctiva
Stickler syndrome type 2
Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy
Oligocone trichromacy
Goldmann-Favre syndrome
Gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy
Corneodermatoosseous syndrome
Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
Vasoproliferative tumor of the retina
Retinoblastoma
Isolated congenital megalocornea
PEHO syndrome
Kandori fleck retina
North Carolina macular dystrophy
Infectious epithelial keratitis
Paraneoplastic uveitis
Ocular albinism
Isolated congenital sclerocornea
Atopic keratoconjunctivitis
Myopic macular degeneration
Eales disease
Toxic maculopathy due to antimalarial drugs
Coats plus syndrome
WAGR syndrome
Idiopathic posterior uveitis
Ocular coloboma
Benign tumor of palpebral epidermis
Blindness-scoliosis-arachnodactyly syndrome
Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome
Disease predisposing to age-related macular degeneration
Microcornea-posterior megalolenticonus-persistent fetal vasculature-coloboma syndrome
Conjunctival tumor
Autosomal recessive Stickler syndrome
Early-onset nuclear cataract
Goniodysgenesis
Dermochondrocorneal dystrophy
Corneal dystrophy-perceptive deafness syndrome
Palpebral sebaceous gland tumor
Retinitis pigmentosa
Rare disorder of the lacrimal apparatus
Rare isolated myopia
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy and peripheral neuropathy
Cystoid macular dystrophy
Corneoiridogoniodysgenesis
Lens position anomaly
Aniridia-renal agenesis-psychomotor retardation syndrome
MMEP syndrome
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Aceruloplasminemia
Non-infectious posterior uveitis
Persistent placoid maculopathy
X-linked corneal dermoid
Tritanopia
Supranuclear eye movement disorder
Moebius syndrome
Epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy
Muir-Torre syndrome
Vitreoretinal degeneration
Total early-onset cataract
Oguchi disease
Juvenile glaucoma
Thiel-Behnke corneal dystrophy
Keratoconus
Bardet-Biedl syndrome
Coloboma of eye lens
Congenital entropion
Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy type II
Rare refraction anomaly
X-linked retinoschisis
Corneodysgenesis
Aniridia-cerebellar ataxia-intellectual disability syndrome
Lens size anomaly
Foveal hypoplasia-optic nerve decussation defect-anterior segment dysgenesis syndrome
Okihiro syndrome due to 20q13 microdeletion
Juvenile cataract-microcornea-renal glucosuria syndrome
Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis
Achromatopsia
Colobomatous microphthalmia-obesity-hypogenitalism-intellectual disability syndrome
Oculocutaneous albinism type 7
MORM syndrome
Birdshot chorioretinopathy
Fundus albipunctatus
Early-onset non-syndromic cataract
Congenital trochlear nerve palsy
Stargardt disease
Congenital vitreoretinal dysplasia
Ectopia lentis-chorioretinal dystrophy-myopia syndrome
Cataract-glaucoma syndrome
Early-onset posterior polar cataract
Optic atrophy-intellectual disability syndrome
Congenital glaucoma
Rare eyelid malposition disorder
Subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy
Ataxia-oculomotor apraxia type 1
Malignant tumor of palpebral epidermis
Coloboma of choroid and retina
Acute endophthalmitis
Developmental defect of the eye
Aniridia
Autosomal dominant rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Microphthalmia with brain and digit anomalies
Renal coloboma syndrome
Congenital ectropion
Peters anomaly
Palpebral lentiginosis
Congenital alacrima
Rare hyperopia and astigmatism
Autosomal dominant neovascular inflammatory vitreoretinopathy
HERNS syndrome
Rare disease with glaucoma as a major feature
Neurotrophic keratopathy
Lens shape anomaly
Early-onset progressive neurodegeneration-blindness-ataxia-spasticity syndrome
Rare genetic eye disease
Oculocutaneous or ocular albinism
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy
Microphthalmia-retinitis pigmentosa-foveoschisis-optic disc drusen syndrome
Hereditary hyperferritinemia-cataract syndrome
Polymicrogyria with optic nerve hypoplasia
Chandler syndrome
Choroideremia
Corneal dystrophy
Granular corneal dystrophy type I
3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 3
Familial flecked retinopathy
Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous
Coloboma of macula
Stickler syndrome
Ocular albinism with congenital sensorineural deafness
Isolated ectopia lentis
Autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy
Aniridia-ptosis-intellectual disability-familial obesity syndrome
Grayson-Wilbrandt corneal dystrophy
Secondary entropion
Pigmented palpebral tumor
Secretory apparatus of the lacrimal system anomaly
Retinal dystrophy-optic nerve edema-splenomegaly-anhidrosis-migraine headache syndrome
Peters plus syndrome
Secondary glaucoma due to a proliferation and differentiation anomaly
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
Usher syndrome type 2
Occult macular dystrophy
Congenital stationary night blindness
Pigmented paravenous retinochoroidal atrophy
Oculomotor apraxia
Hereditary optic neuropathy
Hereditary vascular retinopathy
Early-onset zonular cataract
Axenfeld anomaly
Microspherophakia-metaphyseal dysplasia syndrome
Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophy
X-linked retinal dysplasia
Macular coloboma-cleft palate-hallux valgus syndrome
Coloboma of iris
Rare inflammatory eye disease
Systemic diseases with posterior uveitis
Epiblepharon
Aniridia-intellectual disability syndrome
Ocular albinism with late-onset sensorineural deafness
Microphthalmia-anophthalmia-coloboma
Canthal anomaly
Gardner syndrome
Nervous system anomaly with eye involvement
Syndromic keratoconus
Cerebroretinal vasculopathy
Wagner disease
Rare disorder with lens opacification
Genetic vitreous-retinal disease
Oculocutaneous albinism type 6
Duane retraction syndrome
Color-vision disease
Essential iris atrophy
Behr syndrome
Lattice corneal dystrophy type I
Cerebellar ataxia-areflexia-pes cavus-optic atrophy-sensorineural hearing loss syndrome
Coloboma of optic disc
Glaucoma secondary to spherophakia/ectopia lentis and megalocornea
Pre-Descemet corneal dystrophy
Vernal keratoconjunctivitis
Infectious panuveitis
Microcornea-corectopia-macular hypoplasia syndrome
Aniridia-absent patella syndrome
Acute annular outer retinopathy
Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis
Idiopathic anterior uveitis
Chronic endophthalmitis
Cone dystrophy with supernormal rod response
Major induction processes eye anomaly
High myopia-sensorineural deafness syndrome
Palpebral nevus
Lacrimal drainage system anomaly
Syndromic hyperopia
Ptosis-upper ocular movement limitation-absence of lacrimal punctum syndrome
Rare lens disease
Pigmentation disorder with eye involvement, excluding albinism
MRCS syndrome
Abnormal eye movements
Isolated optic nerve hypoplasia/aplasia
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome due to AP-3 deficiency
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy, classic form
Anterior segment developmental anomaly
Microcornea-glaucoma-absent frontal sinuses syndrome
Cogan-Reese syndrome
Granular corneal dystrophy type II
Progressive cone dystrophy
Coloboma of eyelid
Alström syndrome
Panuveitis
Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration
Syndromic oculocutaneous albinism
Oculocutaneous albinism type 5
Cataract-microcornea syndrome
Spinocerebellar degenerescence and spastic paraparesis with an oculomotor anomaly
Syndromic aniridia
Butterfly-shaped pigment dystrophy
Nanophthalmos
Pulverulent cataract
Mesenchymatous palpebral tumor
Progressive retinal dystrophy due to retinol transport defect
Schnyder corneal dystrophy
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
Syndromic microphthalmia type 5
Cone rod dystrophy
Stromal corneal dystrophy
Leber congenital amaurosis
Primary hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis with severe ocular involvement
Isolated ankyloblepharon filiforme adnatum
Dyssegmental dysplasia-glaucoma syndrome
Isolated congenital ectropion
Retinopathy of prematurity
Usher syndrome type 3
Intellectual disability-alacrima-achalasia syndrome
Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy
Microphthalmia-ankyloblepharon-intellectual disability syndrome
Familial congenital palsy of trochlear nerve
Pattern dystrophy
Infectious posterior uveitis
Epicanthal fold
Spinocerebellar ataxia with oculomotor anomaly
Blepharoptosis-myopia-ectopia lentis syndrome
Neuro-ophthalmological disease
Palpebral piliary tumor
Autosomal recessive isolated optic atrophy
Adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy
Minimal pigment oculocutaneous albinism type 1
Syndromic cataract
Superficial corneal dystrophy
Severe early-childhood-onset retinal dystrophy
Spastic ataxia-corneal dystrophy syndrome
Idiopathic uveal effusion syndrome
Isolated cryptophthalmia
Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome
Idiopathic linear interstitial keratitis
Congenital Horner syndrome
Matthew-Wood syndrome
Ataxia-intellectual disability-oculomotor apraxia-cerebellar cysts syndrome
Rare acquired eye disease
Mitochondrial DNA-related progressive external ophthalmoplegia
Corneal endotheliitis
Amaurosis-hypertrichosis syndrome
Tarsal kink syndrome
Temperature-sensitive oculocutaneous albinism type 1
Iridocorneal endothelial syndrome
Systemic diseases with anterior uveitis
Autosomal dominant keratitis
Microphthalmia-brain atrophy syndrome
Multifocal pattern dystrophy simulating fundus flavimaculatus
Idiopathic macular telangiectasia type 3
Congenital retinal arteriovenous communication
Posterior uveitis
Syndromic optic nerve hypoplasia
Macular corneal dystrophy
Best vitelliform macular dystrophy
Retinal capillary malformation
Microphthalmia with linear skin defects syndrome
Rare palpebral, lacrimal system and conjunctival disease
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy and cataract
Rare palpebral disorder
Okihiro syndrome due to a point mutation
Gonococcal conjunctivitis
Kinetic eyelid anomaly
Progressive bifocal chorioretinal atrophy
Conjunctival vascular anomaly
Syndromic corneal dystrophy
Isolated aniridia
Bietti crystalline dystrophy
Autosomal recessive optic atrophy, OPA7 type
Unclassified familial retinal dystrophy
Horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis
Blue cone monochromatism
Oculocutaneous albinism type 1A
Isolated congenital alacrima
Helicoid peripapillary chorioretinal degeneration
X-linked cone dysfunction syndrome with myopia
Non-hereditary retinoblastoma
Rieger anomaly
Herpes simplex virus stromal keratitis
Usher syndrome
Anophthalmia/microphthalmia-esophageal atresia syndrome
Ablepharon macrostomia syndrome
Leber plus disease
Reticular dystrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium
Syndromic microphthalmia-anophthalmia-coloboma
Triple A syndrome
Early-onset sutural cataract
Rare eye disease due to a differentiation anomaly
Syndromic telecanthus
Palpebral tumor with a vascular malformation
EDICT syndrome
Neurogenic palpebral tumor
Ocular motor apraxia, Cogan type
Rare disorder with conjunctival involvement as a major feature
Neovascular glaucoma
Posterior corneal dystrophy
Familial benign flecked retina
Syndromic rod-cone dystrophy
Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
Autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy
Euryblepharon
Infectious anterior uveitis
AGel amyloidosis
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16.05.2023