Age related macular degeneration as a cause of blindness
Starzycka, M.; Słomska, J.
Klinika Oczna 99(4): 253-255
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2157 PMID: 9577117 Document Number: 479980
To present our studies concerning the causes of blindness in age-related macular degeneration, including the relationship with risk factors for this disease. A total number of 158 eyes with AMD in 99 patients were examined. Among them there were 21 cases with visual acuity 0.1 or less in the better eye. This group of patients underwent a detailed analysis in order to determine the factors responsible for visual impairment in comparison to the patients with better visual function. Blindness is connected mostly with exudative AMD. There are no significant differences in prevalence of risk factors for AMD between the group of patients with visual loss and that of patients with visual acuity above 0.1. The majority of patients referred to the ophthalmologist too late and on account of that is should be necessary to perform prophylactic examinations of the people above sixty.