Retinal changes may reflect dementia progression

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Results of a cross-sectional prospective study showed that several retinal changes were associated with both posterior cortical atrophy and typical Alzheimer’s disease.
“Drusen deposition seems to be a good correlate between what happens in the brain and what happens in the retina, but there are different features that can distinguish between different disease types,” Imre Lengyel, PhD, said in his presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
The researchers took ultra-widefield color and autofluorescence

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