Case of Cerebro-Macular Degeneration

Familial cerebro-macular degeneration and ataxia.

CASE 1 Colin D. (generation E in Fig. 1), born on 9 September 1958, of non-consanguinous parents, was admitted to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children under the care of Professor R. W. B. Ellis in August 1960 with the complaint that since February of that year he had been increasingly unable to walk. The patient was the result of a full-term spontaneous delivery after an uncomplicated pregnancy...

Treatment of macular degeneration (a controlled case).

Our controlled case describes the drug possibility to stabilize the exudative form of Age-related Macular Degeneration. The new approach of selective destruction of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) can be applied in patients with subfoveal lesions. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is based on the reaction of photoactivable drug with the light of low-energy laser beam. So far only verteporfin [Visud...

A Case of Juvenile Disciform Macular Degeneration

The juvenile disciform macular degeneration is a non-inflammatory condition occurring in young people during the second and third decades tending to resolve in the course of a few months. de Schweinitz (1926), Junius (1930), and Davis and Sheppard (1935) have described cases ?f macular lesion similar to the senile disciform degeneration occurring in young subjects. The ophthalmoscopic examinati...

the genetics of age-related macular degeneration

age-related macular degeneration (amd) is the leading cause of blindness in old subjects. it is a multifactorial disease with both environmental and genetic factors playing some role in its pathogenesis. similar to many other genetic diseases, the inheritance pattern of amd does not fit into simple mendelian rules. these diseases are caused by the presence of multiple genetic factors and are ca...

Macular Degeneration