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Would taking 91 milligrams aspirin daily cause the macula to bleed more?

Aspirin does not actually cause bleeding, but it slows the rate of blood clotting, and therefore vessels that are diseased and predisposed to bleed will bleed for a longer period of time in people who are taking aspirin. This applies to patients with wet macular degeneration as well as proliferative diabetic retinopathy and other conditions in which there is abnormal vasculature in the retina or choroid.

Posted 25 Nov 2009

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