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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
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