Sentences with phrase «deposits under the retina»

Among eyes with undiagnosed AMD, 78 percent had small deposits under the retina (called drusen), 78 percent had intermediate drusen, and 30 percent had large drusen.

The LALES study, conducted among 4,876 Latinos in Los Angeles with a mean age cohort of 54.8 years old, indicates that Latinos diagnosed with bilateral AMD with large drusen (the lipids or fatty proteins that are yellow deposits under the retina) and depigmentation as well as a more severe AMD had a substantially lower health - related quality of life as compared to those with AMD lesions in only one eye.

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Affecting more than 150 million patients worldwide, AMD is associated with an accumulation of drusen (deposits of lipid and fatty proteins) under the retina, and patients with AMD experience blurred vision or blindness in the center of the visual field.

The first signs of the disease are so - called drusen, which occur under the retina in the form of round, yellow deposits.

In dry macular degeneration, the most common form of this eye disease, yellowish cellular deposits called drusen (extracellular waste products from metabolism) form under the retina.