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Title: Macular Degeneration - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment


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Wet Macular Degeneration - Symptoms, Causes, and
Treatment
  • - Specialty Care Clinics

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What is Wet Macular Degeneration?
  • Wet macular degeneration is a chronic eye
    disorder that causes blurred vision or a blind
    spot in your field of vision. It is usually
    caused by abnormal blood vessels that leak fluid
    or blood into the macula. The macula is in the
    part of the retina accountable for the central
    vision.
  • Wet macular degeneration is one of two types of
    age-associated macular degeneration. The other
    type dry macular degeneration is more common
    and less serious. The wet type always starts out
    as the dry type.
  • Early detection and treatment of wet macular
    degeneration might help reduce vision loss and,
    in some instances, recover vision.

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Signs And Symptoms Of Wet Macular Degeneration
  • Wet macular degeneration symptoms generally
    appear suddenly and worsen rapidly. They might
    include
  • Visual distortions, like straight lines seeming
    bent
  • Decreased central vision in one or both eyes
  • The requirement for brighter light when reading
    or doing close-up work
  • Increased difficulty adapting to low light
    levels, like when entering a dimly lit restaurant
  • Increased blurriness of printed words
  • Decreased intensity or brightness of colors
  • Trouble recognizing faces
  • A well-defined blurry spot or a blind spot in
    your visual field

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Causes Of Wet Macular Degeneration
  • No one knows the accurate cause of wet macular
    degeneration, but it develops in people who have
    had dry macular degeneration. Of all people with
    age-associated macular degeneration, about twenty
    percent have the wet form.
  • Wet macular degeneration could develop in
    different ways
  • Vision loss caused by abnormal blood vessel
    growth - At times abnormal new blood vessels grow
    from the choroid under and into the macula
    (choroidal neovascularization). The choroid is
    the layer of blood vessels in between the retina
    and the outer, firm coat of the eye (sclera).
    These abnormal blood vessels might leak fluid or
    blood, interfering with the retina's function.
  • Vision loss caused by fluid build-up in the back
    of the eye - When fluid leaks from the choroid,
    it could collect between the thin cell layer
    known as the retinal pigment epithelium and the
    retina or within the layers of the retina. This
    might cause a bump in the macula, resulting in
    vision loss or distortion.
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Contact Us
  • Website https//specialtycareclinics.com/
  • Contact No. 469-545-9983
  • Email hugosutton020_at_gmail.com  

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