Eccentric viewing spectacles in everyday life, for the optimum use of residual functional retinal areas, in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 413-417

  Verezen, Cornelis A ^a,c   Volker Dieben, Hendrika J ^b   Hoyng, Carel B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; central scotoma; eccentric viewing; image relocation; low vision aids; preferred viewing locus; prism glasses

Indexed keywords

EYEGLASSES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PRISMS; SCANNING; VISION AIDS;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; ECCENTRIC VIEWING SPECTACLES; HIGH POWER PRISM GLASSES; IMAGE RELOCATION; RESIDUAL FUNCTIONAL RETINAL AREAS; RETINAL LOCUS;

VISION;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL AID;

EID: 0030176056     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199606000-00009     Document Type: Article

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