<Secrets of birth, old age, illness, and death> Warning about macular degeneration and dementia, ‘drusen’

2024-02-28 11:11:05

The vision of the retina, which had atrophied due to macular degeneration, could not be restored.

However, the subsequent macular degeneration in the other eye was detected early and good vision is maintained.

Because macular degeneration is difficult to detect, it is easy to miss the right time for treatment. If wet macular degeneration occurs in one eye, there is a 20% chance that macular degeneration will occur in the other eye within 5 years.

The risk of cognitive impairment can also be measured based on the shape of drusen around the fundus.

Early detection of not only macular degeneration but also other serious diseases is possible through the retina, which is the only tissue that can directly see nervous tissue or blood vessels.

For wet macular degeneration, injection treatment is the only treatment, but there is currently no treatment for dry macular degeneration, which causes geographic atrophy.

Research on artificial retina 3D bioprinting is underway to treat blind eyes.

 

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