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A maculopathy is any pathological condition of the macula, an area at the centre of the
Handbook of Ocular Disease Management: Epiretinal membrane
Retrieved on 2008-05-14
A maculopathy is any pathological condition of the macula, an area at the centre of the retina
The retina (from la, rete "net") is the innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs. The optics of the eye create a focused two-dimensional image of the visual world on the retina, which then ...
that is associated with highly sensitive, accurate vision.
Forms of maculopathies
* Age-Related Macular Degeneration is a degenerative maculopathy associated with progressive sight loss. It is characterised by changes in pigmentation in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium, the appearance of drusen on the retina of the eye and choroidal neovascularization. AMD has two forms; 'dry' or atrophic/non-exudative AMD, and 'wet' or exudative/neovascular AMD. * Malattia Leventinese (or Doyne’s honeycomb retinal dystrophy) is another maculopathy with a similar pathology to wet AMD. * Hypotony maculopathy: Maculopathy due to very lowintraocular pressure
Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the fluid pressure inside the eye
Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response fu ...
( ocular hypotony).
*Cellophane Maculopathy A fine glistening membrane forms over the macula, obscuring the vision.Retrieved on 2008-05-14
See also
* EFEMP1 - a gene thought to be involved with Malattia Leventinese * Robert Walter Doyne - the British Ophthalmologist after whom Malattia Leventinese is named * Age-Related Macular Degeneration *Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). As peripheral vision worsens, people may ...
* Malattia Leventinese
References
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