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Abstract
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment and blindness in the elderly population.
The development of AMD is a slow progressive process that occurs with aging and mainly affects people over age 60.
AMD conventionally is divided into two main types dry (non-exudative) AMD and wet (exudative) AMD. And by The International Age-Related Maculopathy Epidemiological Study Group is divided into two main types early AMD and advanced AMD.
Classification of fundus autofluorescence patterns in early age-related macular disease study (normal, minimal changes, focal, patchy, linear, lacelike, reticular and speckeled pattern).
Classification of abnormal fundus autofluorescence patterns in the junctional zone of geographic atrophy in patients with age related macular degeneration study (none, focal, patchy and diffuse pattern).
The current study was conducted on 60 eyes of patients aged 55 years or more who attended the Ophthalmology department outpatients clinic at Alexandria Main University Hospital from April 2012 to December 2012.With aiming to correlate between the RPE pattern seen in colour fundus photography and location of autofluorescence spots seen in fundus autofluorescence in dry type age related macular degeneration and to evaluate the relation between central fundus autofluorescence changes and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in cases with dry AMD.
Patients were divided into the following groups: group I : 30 eyes of patients with dry type age related macular degeneration, who will be further subdividied into : Ia: 12 eyes of patients with early dry type age related macular degeneration and Ib: 18 eyes of patients with late dry type age related macular degeneration (Geographical atrophy) and group II: 30 eyes of healthy individuals (had no dry AMD signs detected in the fundus) in the same age group. All patients had a standard ophthalmological examination on the same day.