Getting treatments as early as possible can help slow or even reverse damage and protect your vision.
Causes
Themaculais located in the back of the eye and is responsible for clear, central vision.
It is the part of theretinawe use when we “aim” our vision to look at a target.
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The macula then swells, which causes vision to be distorted.
Macular edema is not a disease in itself.
Instead, it is the result of conditions that affect the macula.
Macular edema in many cases can be seen just by looking at your macula with a slit lamp microscope.
However, more subtle conditions are difficult to see.
In these cases, anoptical coherence tomography (OCT)test will be performed.
An image from an OCT can allow doctors to view individual layers of the retina.
An OCT is a non-invasive test that uses light to obtain images showing macular edema.
Sometimes, doctors also use a dye-injection test so that blood flow can be analyzed through the macula.
Treatment
Macular edema is treated differently depending on the underlying cause.
Will Macular Edema Go Away?
The macula is located in the back of the eye and is responsible for providing clear, central vision.
Abnormal, leaking blood vessels cause the fluid and result in distorted vision.
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