With geographic atrophy, light-sensitive cells and tissue in your retina slowly die ... but it rarely affects your peripheral or side vision. That means you won’t go totally blind if this ...

With only 2 eyes with peripheral GA included in the current study, no meaningful conclusions could be drawn related to commonality of the lesions or their growth rates. “Although fundus ...

New research links diffuse-trickling patterns in fundus autofluorescence to increased ellipsoidal zone loss, highlighting ...

Geographic atrophy (GA) is a late stage of age-related ... In its early stages, GA typically affects the outer retina, involving the macula, but sparing the foveal region (Figure 2-1).

At ARVO 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Roger Goldberg, MD, MBA, talked about his presentation on the effect of AREDS vitamins ...

They are usually small, peripheral (outside the macula ... supply causes the affected area to degenerate (atrophy, hence the name atrophic retinal holes). Almost half the time atrophic retinal ...

As AMD progresses, the loss of retinal cells and the underlying blood vessels in the macula results in marked thinning and/or atrophy of retinal tissue. Geographic atrophy, associated with AMD ...

In the META-PM classification system, myopic maculopathy lesions are categorized into five categories from no myopic retinal lesions (category 0), tessellated fundus only (category 1, Figure 1A ...

Geographic atrophy is a common form of ... Your specific symptoms will depend on the regions of retinal cells that are affected by cell death. Your peripheral—or side—vision isn’t usually ...

Over time, it spreads to other parts of your retina. This leads to more vision loss. After a few years, your vision may decline to legal blindness. Learning more about geographic atrophy can ...