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.