How Do You Get Disciform Scar?

Disciform scars develop with regression of subretinal hemorrhages and retinal edema and hyperplasic elements of the RPE. Disciform scars are usually dry and show marked destruction of all retinal layers.

What causes Disciform scar?

In the wet, or exudative, form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), pathologic choroidal neovascular membranes (CNVM) develop under the retina. The CNVM can leak fluid and blood and, if left untreated, ultimately cause a centrally blinding disciform scar.

What is Disciform macular degeneration?

As disciform macular degeneration refers solely to the presence of a circular scar in eyes that develop exudative manifestations, it was necessary to have nomenclature that also took into consideration drusen and the other characteristic degenerative features of AMD, namely hypopigmentation and hyperpigmentation ( ...