Re: Maximum MD?

"The Real Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If the entire macula is shot, how much peripheral vision is left?  The
> retinologist said that the MD in MIL's good eye (no sensible number, but
> the letters on her grocery lists are 2" tall;  thank heaven for greenbar
> computer paper) wouldn't get any worse, but she has no vision at all in
> her bad eye, apparently due to scarring.  (She discovered that she was
> blind in that eye when she accidentally passed her arm in front of her
> good eye and couldn't see the TV;  she had no idea how long it had been
> that way, and she didn't tell anybody about it for at least a week.)
>
> The good eye is the one on which she had the two visudyne treatments.
> Could they have actually arrested the MD in that eye and have I been
> unjustly maligning the treatment?


The aim of visudyne treatment is to slow the progression of ARMD.  If it
stops it, that is a bonus.  And a few patients actually get a small
improvement in BCVA.

Dr Judy