Dry Senile Macular Degenerati... : Complications

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Complications could include:
Most individuals with mild dry macular degeneration will never develop disabling central vision loss. However, there is no current method of predicting which individuals will progress to an advanced stage of AMD. AMD can cause the loss of central ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
People can live many years with AMD, although the physical symptoms and emotional side effects often change over time. The vision problems caused by dry AMD typically worsen slowly over a period of years, and people often retain the ability to rea...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Blindness is the lack of vision, or a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. Blindness may be partial, with very limited vision, or complete, with no perception of light. People with vision worse than 20/200, or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees in the better eye, are considered legally blind in most states in the U.S.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 22, 2007
Total blindness is the inability to tell light from dark, or the total inability to see. Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can ' t be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person ' s ability to function at certain or all tasks.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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