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Patient Portal: Optic Disc Drusen | Cristiano Oliveira, MD | Optic disc drusen (ODD) are abnormal deposits of benign, usually calcified material within the optic disc, which is the front part of the optic nerve that connects each eye to the brain. We do not know the exact cause of optic disc drusen. They are present in 0.3-2% of people as an isolated case or ... | Optic disc drusen; Papilledema; Pseudopapilledema |
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Age Related Macular Degeneration | Riya H. Patel; James Brian Davis; Amanda Dean Henderson | Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the retina that causes central vision loss, and it is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. Age is a strong nonmodifiable risk factor for AMD. Patients may have genetic susceptibility to AMD from mutations in genes ... | AMD; AREDS2; Exudative; Geographic Atrophy; Macular Degeneration; Nonexudative |