Dry AMD vs Wet AMD: Questions About Diagnosis, Risk, and Monitoring
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is one of those eye conditions that sounds abstract until it touches someone close to you. Then it becomes very concrete very fast. A patient comes in saying the words are getting harder to read, the center of the page seems dimmer, or straight lines look a little off. Sometimes the changes are subtle enough that they are easy to dismiss for months. Other times the diagnosis arrives with the force of a surprise, especially when some