Retinal drusen are small yellow dots in the eye. They are visiblebetween the deepest or outermost layer of the retina, called Bruch’s membrane, and the underlying retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). In ...

Q: My eye doctor says I have something called "drusen" on top of my retina. I've read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I'm worried. Can you please explain more about it? A: The term ...

A 15-year study of more than 1300 Australian men and women who were initially free of early or late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has shed light on the incidence and progression of medium ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAILEA, Hawaii — New algorithms to translate spectral domain optical coherence tomography images have begun to ...

Q: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I'm supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn't say anything about macular degeneration, ...

Dear Doctor: My eye doctor says I have something called “drusen” on top of my retina. I’ve read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I’m worried. Can you please explain more about it?

Oxidative stress has long been linked to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases; however, whether it is a cause or merely a consequence of the degenerative process is still unknown. We show ...

Q: My eye doctor says I have something called "drusen" on top of my retina. I've read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I'm worried. Can you please explain more about it? A: In a ...

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and characteristics of drusen and pigmentary changes in a middle-aged population. Retinal images from 500 individuals aged 18–54 years were ...

Malattia Leventinese (ML), an inherited macular degenerative disease, is closely reminiscent of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of incurable blindness. Both ML and AMD ...

Dear Doctor: My eye doctor says I have something called "drusen" on top of my retina. I've read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I'm worried. Can you please explain more about it?