Q: My eye doctor says I have something called "drusen" on top of my retina. I've read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I'm worried. Can you please explain more about it? A: The term ...

Retinal drusen are small yellow dots in the eye. They are visiblebetween the deepest or outermost layer of the retina, called Bruch’s membrane, and the underlying retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). In ...

Q: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I’m supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn’t say anything about macular degeneration, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAILEA, Hawaii — New algorithms to translate spectral domain optical coherence tomography images have begun to ...

Dear Doctor: My eye doctor says I have something called “drusen” on top of my retina. I’ve read that this is connected to macular degeneration, and I’m worried. Can you please explain more about it?

Q: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I'm supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn't say anything about macular degeneration, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Soft drusen and subretinal drusenoid deposits have distinguishing characteristics and may represent separate ...

We introduce a human retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cell-culture model that mimics several key aspects of early stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These include accumulation of sub-RPE ...

Dear Doctors: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I’m supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn’t say anything about macular ...