In addition to these findings, there was arrest of peripheral vascularization ... showing mottling of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in the macula, an area of RPE atrophy temporal to the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Are these two different names for the same condition? Not quite. Read on to learn about retinal atrophy in humans and understand how geographic atrophy is related to age-related macular degeneration.

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 ...