A research report published in the current edition of the journal Ophthalmology reports that poor visual performance under low lighting conditions appears to predict future vision loss in patients with geographic atrophy (GA) from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In a prospective study of patients with advanced dry AMD, researchers found...

The use of preferential hyperacuity perimetry (PHP) can detect the conversion of the dry version of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to the more destructive exudative form of the disease, according to results from a study presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2008 meeting. "In some cases, the...