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KeepSight Journal for Monitoring AMD
The KeepSight Journal, used in conjunction with treatment by your physician, provides a fun and easy way to monitor your vision. A variety of tests are provided week by week so that you may track changes in your vision. Should you notice any differences, you may report them to your doctor. Monitoring yourself for any changes in
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Join AMDF’s Newsletter for Important News about Macular Degeneration
Important Information for Everyone Dealing with AMD! The AMDF Newsletter, In the Spotlight, provides regular interviews, tip sheets, and updates on research, healthy living and managing AMD, all delivered in a useful format: Previous Issues of the AMDF Newsletter are available for$10.00 each ($15.00 Foreign). The Newsletter makes a thoughtful gift too! If you wish to mail your contribution to
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Vitamins and Zinc (AREDS)— a Treatment for Macular Degeneration?
AGE-RELATED EYE DISEASE STUDY (AREDS) Findings from a nationwide clinical trial regarding antioxidant vitamins and zinc The October 2001 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology reported on findings from a nationwide clinical trial regarding antioxidant vitamins and zinc. The clinical trial – called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) – was sponsored by the National Eye Institute.
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Eylea Injection Treatment of Macular Degeneration
Eylea Injection Treatment Currently, the most common and effective clinical treatment for Advanced Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration is anti-VEGF therapy – which is periodic intravitreal (into the eye) injection of a chemical called an “anti-VEGF”. Eylea (Eylea/VEGF Trap-Eye from Regeneron/Bayer) is one form of anti-VEGF therapy, and recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Diagnosing Age-related Macular Degeneration
The first signs of Age-related Macular Degeneration are typically discovered by an eye doctor in an annual dilated eye exam. They include the presence of drusen – tiny but visible heaps of cell waste on the surface of the retina – and pigment changes in the macula. Often these signs of AMD are present long
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Depression in Age-related Macular Degeneration
People with Age-related Macular Degeneration commonly face a bout of depression in the first few months after their diagnosis. In this article, written for the AMDF by psychiatrist Arnold Wyse, M.D., depression is described as a natural process of working through the issues of AMD. Wyse gives reassuring guidelines for understanding that process and for
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Macular Degeneration Treatments
Macular degeneration treatment breakthroughs inspire hope that someday we may see a cure to this disease. Promising treatments, described below, depend upon the stage of disease progression. Dry Macular Degeneration Treatments Nutritional Therapy The treatment for early dry AMD is generally nutritional therapy, with a healthy diet high in antioxidants to support the cells of
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Junk Food May Be Bad for Your Eyesight
A study published in the August 2001 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology suggests that junk food may be bad for your eyesight. Fat-filled snack foods may heighten the risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Vegetable, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, along with linoleic acid, are the types of fat that put junk food
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Wet Macular Degeneration
Approximately 10-15% of the cases of macular degeneration are the “wet” (exudative) type, sometimes also referred to at neovascular macular degeneration or nAMD. In the “wet” type of macular degeneration, abnormal blood vessels (known as choroidal neovascularization or CNV) grow under the retina and macula. These new blood vessels may then bleed and leak fluid,
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What is Macular Degeneration?
Macular Degeneration, also known as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in adults over 60, affecting nearly 20 million Americans. The risk of developing AMD increases with age. If you are 75 or older, your risk is 1 in 3. There is also a juvenile form of macular degeneration