Chapter 3

Pictorial
Descriptions
of Macular Degeneration

• What Does MD
  Look Like?
   
• The Healthy Eye
   
• The Dry Form
   
• The Wet Form
   
• Slide Show

With age in certain people the blood vessels supplying the macula and Bruch's membrane harden.

As drusen continues to accumulate, the RPE cells are lifted further and further away from their blood supply, progressively impairing the transport of vital substances to the macular area of the retina. This causes the central point of the retina (macula/fovea) to bow upwards causing loss and distortion of vision.

Photograph of the eye showing drusen spots in the center