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Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Published May 09, 2019

Executive Manager, Education & Learning, McGraw-Hill

Age-related macular degeneration consisting of scattered yellow drusen in the macula (dry form) and a crescent of fresh hemorrhage temporal to the fovea from a subretinal neovascular membrane (wet form).

Read More About Wet (Neovascular) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD):

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Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e: Chapter 28. Disorders of the Eye

Read More About Wet (Neovascular) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) in Context:

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Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC

Executive Manager, Education & Learning, McGraw-Hill

Melanie Allison is the Executive Manager of Education & Learning with McGraw Hill. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree and Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Education from The Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree, specializing as an acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP), from Vanderbilt University. Melanie has more than 20 years of experience as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in adult cardiology and advanced lipid management. She is a part-time faculty member at a top school of nursing where she has taught for more than 16 years.