Cataracts can be treated with surgery, and wet AMD can be treated with medications and laser therapies. However, the most common form of macular degeneration, dry AMD, causes permanent vision loss.

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MMD generally can’t be treated with laser vision surgery. It’s important to have regular eye appointments if you have macular myopic degeneration. It’s also best to let your eye care team ...

Forty patients (24%) developed postoperative delirium, and these patients had displayed a greater mean macular thickness (283.35 µm) of the right eye at their preoperative assessment than the ...

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Dr. Larsen: When evaluating a patient with vision trouble, there are several signs that might raise the suspicion for wet AMD ...

Eye drops are not a standard treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but some eye drop medications are in development that may become viable options in the future. AMD affects a ...

Researchers have succeeded in genetically modifying cells in the human retina. To restore vision in severe degenerative eye ...

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In 2003 his right eye developed wet age-related macular degeneration, in which abnormal blood vessels leak fluid into the back of the eye. The result can be permanent blindness. Both eyes had ...