Rehabilitative approach in patients with ring scotoma

FM Amore, V Silvestri, S Turco, F De Rossi… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the rehabilitative approach in patients with ring scotoma. A central
scotoma is characteristic for patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) …

Patient with macular disease, good visual acuity, and central visual field disruption and significant difficulties with activities of daily living

DC Fletcher, RA Schuchard, JP Walker… - Journal of Visual …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
It is generally appreciated that patients with macular disease frequently experience reduced
visual acuity. It is not as widely appreciated that they often have significant central visual …

Patient awareness of binocular central scotoma in age-related macular degeneration

DC Fletcher, RA Schuchard… - Optometry and Vision …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Purpose. To assess whether age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients are aware of
binocular central visual field defects. Methods. One hundred fifty-three consecutive AMD …

Reading with central scotomas: is there a binocular gain?

SA Kabanarou, GS Rubin - Optometry and Vision Science, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to compare reading performance under binocular
versus monocular viewing conditions in patients with bilateral age-related macular …

Long-term follow-up of fixation patterns in eyes with central scotomas from geographic atrophy that is associated with age-related macular degeneration

JS Sunness, CA Applegate - American journal of ophthalmology, 2005 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To study whether fixation patterns changed over time in patients with central
scotomas from geographic atrophy from age-related macular degeneration. DESIGN …

Scotoma size reduction as an adaptive strategy in age-related macular degeneration

KK Lee, SN Markowitz - Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010 - Elsevier
Objective: Retinal areas with reduced sensitivity to light stimuli represent the true scotoma
size in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), whereas the perceived visual …

Characteristics of the preferred retinal loci of better and worse seeing eyes of patients with a central scotoma

E Kisilevsky, L Tarita-Nistor, EG González… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Patients with central vision loss develop preferred retinal loci (PRLs) in the
eccentric retina. The characteristics of the PRLs for the better eye (BE) are well studied, but …

[HTML][HTML] Patients with AMD and a large absolute central scotoma can be trained successfully to use eccentric viewing, as demonstrated in a scanning laser …

UL Nilsson, C Frennesson, SEG Nilsson - Vision research, 2003 - Elsevier
Twenty patients with age-related macular degeneration, an absolute central scotoma and a
mean visual acuity of 0.04 (20/475) were studied. A scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) …

Effectiveness of low vision rehabilitation using microperimetric acoustic biofeedback training in patients with central scotoma

E Sahli, D Altinbay, P Bingol Kiziltunc… - Current Eye …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose To evaluate the efficacy of visual rehabilitation with microperimeter biofeedback in
patients with central scotoma. Materials and Methods 35 consecutive patients with central …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the binocular scotoma in macular degeneration

C Vullings, P Verghese - Journal of Vision, 2021 - iovs.arvojournals.org
When the scotoma is binocular in macular degeneration (MD), it often obscures objects of
interest, causing individuals to miss information. To map the binocular scotoma as precisely …