{"id":65,"date":"2016-06-17T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:00:26","slug":"ekfylisi-oxras-kilidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/ekfylisi-oxras-kilidas\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-related Macular Degeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the main causes of eyesight loss in people over 60.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_645\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-image-645 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/AMDsample-new.jpg\" alt=\"People with Age-related Macular Degeneration\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People with Age-related Macular Degeneration<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are two types of Age-related Macular Degeneration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dry and<\/li>\n<li>Wet (exudative).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dry type affects approximately 85% of individuals with AMD. Photo-receptors in the center of the retina are destroyed. This leads to a decrease of central vision, which affects everyday activities, such as reading and driving. Dry type AMD can evolve to wet type AMD.<\/p>\n<p>In wet (or exudative) type AMD, abnormal vessels develop beneath the retina, in the choroid of the macula. These may cause edema, hemorrhage and finally a scar on the macula. This causes a significant loss of central vision, central scotoma or metamorfopsia (straight lines appear wavy). As the macula is at the center of the retina, in macular degeneration peripheral vision remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_568\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-image-568 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/macular_degeneration_Amsler.jpg\" alt=\"Patient with AMD in Amsler grid\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient with AMD in Amsler grid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The timely diagnosis and proper treatment of AMD is very important. Therefore, if you experience any changes in your vision, please contact us.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the main causes of eyesight loss in people over 60. There are two types of Age-related Macular Degeneration Dry and Wet (exudative). The dry type affects approximately 85% of individuals with AMD. Photo-receptors in the center of the retina are destroyed. This leads to a decrease of central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyedayclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}