Charles Bonnet Syndrome in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Nature and Frequency of Images in Subjects with End-Stage Disease

Abstract

The prevalence of CBS in late AMD is high, the main risk factor being poor better eye visual acuity. The most commonly experienced hallucinations were of people. Although most patients were unperturbed by the images, reassurance of their benign nature was welcomed. Practitioners should be aware that resolution of symptoms over time does not always occur.