Diagnosis and management of age-related macular degeneration.

The article focuses on diagnosis and management of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Topics include the macula's non-renewing cells are subject to a lifetime of oxygen free radical damage and latterly inflammatory processes, and the atrophic AMD is the sum of these degenerative processes, while neovascular or wet AMD (NvAMD) is a neovascular response in which new abnormal blood vessel growth can cause rapid damage.