Visual-function tests for self-monitoring of age-related macular degeneration.

摘要: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes severe visual impairment in United States. Changes lifestyle can slow progression AMD, and new therapies that arrest choroidal neovascularization preserve vision patients who progress to neovascular form advanced AMD. Appropriate timing required for these interventions be optimally effective, which, turn, depends critically on early diagnosis. Because annual or semiannual eye examinations may not sufficient ensure an diagnosis, preferred practice AMD management must include self-monitoring by disease onset progression. In this review, we discuss a number functions have been shown impaired eyes with specify desirable characteristics visual-function tests used populations at risk