Macular degeneration physical examination

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Physical Examination

  • Drusen
  • Pigmentary alterations
  • Exudative changes: hemorrhages in the eye, hard exudates, subretinal/sub-RPE/intraretinal fluid
  • Atrophy: incipient and geographic
  • Visual acuity drastically decreasing (two levels or more) ex: 20/20 to 20/80.
Normal vision. Courtesy NIH National Eye Institute
The same view with age-related macular deneneration.

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