Functional Impairment and Visual Loss in the Aging Eye

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Mariam Hussain of Texas A&M College of Medicine introduces Dr. Andrew G. Lee, Geriatrician, and interviews him on functional impairment and vision loss in aging patients.

Keywords

  • Vision loss
  • macular degeneration
  • blind persons
  • traction retinal detachment
  • functional vision loss

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

About this video

Author(s)
Andrew G. Lee
Mariam Hussain
T. Ashwini Kini
Bayan Al Othman
First online
22 December 2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24228-2_1
Online ISBN
978-3-030-24228-2
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Copyright information
© The Author(s) 2019

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