Talk:Macular degeneration

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[edit] Clarification

The article as I just read contains the following:

This can be demonstrated by printing letters 6 inches high on a piece of paper and attempting to identify them while looking straight ahead and holding the paper slightly to the side.

Could this be clarified? To the side of what? I'd like to try this, to understand, but I can't make sense of these directions.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.68.241.212 (talk • contribs) 03:48, 8 September 2005 (UTC).

From what I understand to be one of the standard tests of MacDeg, here's what needs to be done (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
  1. Print the test sheet
  2. Try identifying the characters while looking straight ahead on the test sheet
  3. Now repeat the identification while you look straight ahead again, but this time the sheet is NOT straight ahead of you. Try identification while the sheet is to the left or right of your direct vision and you are looking straight ahead, NOT on the sheet.
As MacDeg affects straight vision but peripheral vision seems to be unaffected, any anomolies you detect might be indicative of MacDeg. Hope this helps, Mu5ti 15:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Macular hole

Is this defect also know as macular hole? I have searched for the above term with no success and therefore felt this may be the likely article. If someone is sure of this hypothesis, would a redirection link for the term macular hole pointing here? That may make future searches less frastrating.

See article below for what I mean

[1]—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.24.112.56 (talk • contribs) 10:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC).


Macular hole is a completely different disease than macular degeneration. Macular holes are literally "holes" in the central retinal tissue; they may be caused by trauma or due to chronic vitreous traction, typically in older patients

[edit] Redirect ARMD

Could someone who knows how to do redirects arrange for "Age related macular degeneration" and "ARMD" to redirect to the macular degeneration page? Thanks PedEye1 20:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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