I was reviewing retinal photography with a patient today, and everything looked healthy. A retinal hemorrhage tells us that blood flow has been compromised,a huge red flag for blood pressure issues! "Your blood vessels look excellent; no hardening of the arteries, no cholesterol plaques, and no leaky capillaries. And if your retinal vessels look this good, we know the rest of your body...
Here's another healthy dosage of retinal photos from my days at work. Again, the white reflections are really just unfortunate camera artifacts. AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION This is a photo of a caucasian female with early dry macular degeneration. The macula (dark central vision area) shows evidence of 'soft' drusen, which appear as large yellow deposits in the macula in this photo. At...