Sentences with phrase «center of the retina»

High - quality visual input is restricted just to the very centers of our retinas.

More than 15 million elderly Americans slowly lose their eyesight due to age - related macular degeneration: an accumulation of inflammation - related protein and fat beneath the center of the retina that slowly destroys it.

Much of what we see comes through a pinhead - size patch in the center of the retina known as the fovea.

When retinal cells die they are much more likely to die in the center of the retina than in the periphery, which the researchers say is exactly what happens in humans with age and the problem with macular degeneration.

All of the patients were found to have significant fovea hypoplasia (an underdevelopment of the macula, the center of the retina), a characteristic not commonly seen in other achromatopsia patients.

The macula is a few square centimeters of tissue in the center of the retina at the back of the eye.

In the less common, wet form of the disease, rogue blood vessels escape normal growth control and leak fluid into the macula, the area at the center of the retina that enables a person to see fine detail.

Macular degeneration gradually diminishes vision by damaging the macula, an oval - shaped yellow spot located in the center of the retina.

But someday all of them could offer a valid treatment for retinitis pigmentosa as well as for age - related macular degeneration, which gradually destroys photoreceptors in the center of the retina and is the leading cause of blindness in adults over age 55.

This is partly due to the much greater density of photoreceptor cells in a very small area in the center of the retina — the fovea.

Because Lucentis is commonly injected to treat diabetic macular edema (DME)-- a build - up of fluid in the center of the retina — the study permitted the use of Lucentis for DME in the laser group, if necessary.

«As a result, now when most patients are identified for the first time with leakage in the center of their retina with associated loss of vision, the first line of treatment is a VEGF inhibitor therapy,» he said.

The center of your retina, your macula, is made of lutein and zeaxanthin, carotenoids related to beta - carotene.