Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition which may result in blurred or no vision in...

occasionally fats into the retina causing it to swell. Age-related macular degeneration may cause macular edema. As individuals age there may be a natural deterioration...

as atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or advanced dry AMD, is an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration that can result in the...

eye strain. Severe myopia is associated with an increased risk of macular degeneration, retinal detachment, cataracts, and glaucoma. Myopia results from...

with ELOVL4 or PROM1 genes, respectively. It is characterized by macular degeneration that begins in childhood, adolescence or adulthood, resulting in...

the membrane becomes quite thick and hard; so usually there is no macular degeneration. The source of the cells in epiretinal membranes (ERM) has been found...

used for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME). Faricimab is the first bispecific monoclonal...

This is done in the treatment of certain cancers and in age-related macular degeneration. They can involve monoclonal antibodies such as bevacizumab, antibody...

deficiency in factor H and leads to a substantially higher risk of macular degeneration as well as complement-mediated renal conditions. Variation in other...

Other disorders that may cause visual problems include age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, corneal clouding, childhood blindness, and...

Stem cell therapy for macular degeneration is the use of stem cells to heal, replace dead or damaged cells of the macula in the retina. Stem cell based...

This kind of vision is impaired if the macula is damaged, as in macular degeneration. The clinical macula is seen when viewed from the pupil, as in ophthalmoscopy...

kinds of diabetic retinopathy; it is no longer used in age-related macular degeneration in favor of anti-VEGF drugs. The American Academy of Ophthalmology...

from changes in the shape of the retina such as from retinal edema, macular degeneration, or central serous retinopathy), by changes in the brain (such as...

brand names Eylea among others, is a medication used to treat wet macular degeneration and metastatic colorectal cancer. It was developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals...

an 18% decrease in the risk of all-cause mortality. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) represents the leading cause of irreversible blindness in elderly...

common early sign of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Drusen associated with aging and macular degeneration are distinct from another clinical...

including lutein and zeaxanthin with lower incidence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), most notably the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS2). Because...

disturbances caused by changes in the retina, particularly the macula (e.g. macular degeneration, Epiretinal membrane), as well as the optic nerve and the visual...

examples of the etiology include macular pucker (macular detachment), macular hole, and age-related macular degeneration. Macular dystrophies and telangiectasia...

formulation containing lutein reduced progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by 25 percent. However, lutein and zeaxanthin had no overall...

astigmatism, and presbyopia (the loss of focusing range during aging). Macular degeneration is especially prevalent in the U.S. and affects roughly 1.75 million...

in the CFH gene is associated with increased risk of age-related macular degeneration. Differences in the severity of an illness or response to treatments...

been associated with the development of macular degeneration, and the risk of frailty. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of severe, irreversible...

to treat the "wet" type of age-related macular degeneration (AMD, also ARMD), diabetic retinopathy, and macular edema due to branch retinal vein occlusion...

beta-carotene, selenium). No changes seen for risk of developing age-related macular degeneration from long-term vitamin E suplementation. An older review of dietary...

a retrospective analysis comparing the incidence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) between patients taking versus not taking l-DOPA found that...

these diseases it is used as a first-line therapy. For age-related macular degeneration it is given by injection into the eye (intravitreal). Common side...

progression of disease. Musarella MA (May 2001). "Molecular genetics of macular degeneration". Documenta Ophthalmologica. Advances in Ophthalmology. 102 (3):...

degenerative maculopathy (i.e. 'wet' macular degeneration) commonly exacerbated by extreme myopia, malignant myopic degeneration, or age-related developments...