Macular Degeneration

Overview

Condition Specific Sites

Symptoms

  • Dry macular Degeneration
    • The need for increasingly bright illumination when reading or doing close work
    • Increasing difficulty adapting to low levels of illumination, such as when entering a dimly lit restaurant
    • Printed words that appear increasingly blurry
    • Colors that appear less bright
    • Difficulty recognizing faces
    • Gradual increase in the haziness of your overall vision
    • Blurred or blind spot in the center of your visual field combined with a profound drop in your central vision acuity
    • A need to scan your eyes all around an object to provide a more complete image
    • Your vision may falter in one eye while the other remains fine for years
  • Wet Macular Degeneration
    • Visual distortions, such as straight lines appearing wavy or crooked, a doorway or street sign that seems out of whack, or objects appearing smaller or farther away than they should
    • Decrease in or loss of central vision
    • Central blurry spot
    • Your vision may falter in one eye while the other remains fine for years

Diagnosis

Treatment

Anatomy

Ogranizations and Patient-Centered Sites