Macular degeneration associated with age (AMD) is an eye disorder that causes progressive vision loss and can cause total blindness. The most common presenting symptoms are:
*Blurred vision. Macular Degeneration
*Difficulties in the perception of straight lines drawn.
*Emergence of a black dot in the visual field.
*Increased sensitivity to light.
If at some point suffer these symptoms should go as quickly as possible to make us a complete review of the retina, because early treatment will prevent us greater evils. There are two types of macular degeneration: the dry or atrophic (most common) and wet or exudative (less frequent but more aggressive).
It is a condition that usually appears after a certain age (around 50-60 years) is one of the most common causes of blindness after age 65.
There are some risk factors that increase the chances that suffer this loss of vision, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, family history of the disease course, age.
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