New Frontiers in Retina: highlights of the 2020 angiogenesis, exudation and degeneration symposium
International Journal of Retina and Vitreous, 2020 We summarize the most important findings presented at the 2020 angiogenesis, exudation and degeneration symposium in five topic areas: (1) epidemiology of retinal vascular disease and macular degeneration; (2) dry AMD and geographic atrophy; (3 ...
Carmen A. Puliafito, Charles C. Wykoff
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International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017 AIM: To report the change in visual acuity and central macular thickness (CMT) following treatment with intravitreal aflibercept injections in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) with suboptimum response to ranibizumab ...
Rachel Hui Fen Lim +2 more
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Morphologic Criteria of Lesion Activity in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Consensus Article [PDF]
, 2017 Intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor drugs represent the current standard of care for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
Elena Gusson +8 more
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ROCT-Net: A new ensemble deep convolutional model with improved spatial resolution learning for detecting common diseases from retinal OCT images [PDF]
, 2022 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is a well-known technology for visualizing retinal layers and helps ophthalmologists to detect possible diseases. Accurate and early diagnosis of common retinal diseases can prevent the patients from suffering critical damages to their vision.
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Cost effectiveness of treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration [PDF]
, 2011 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in people aged >= 50 years. Wet AMD in particular has a major impact on patient quality of life and imposes substantial burdens on healthcare systems.
Annemans, Lieven +4 more
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, 2020 Producción CientíficaABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine the intra-session repeatability and inter-examiner reproducibility of the colour perimetry technique when assessing in vivo macular pigment optical density in age-related ...
Coco Martín, Rosa María +4 more
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FGF21 Administration Suppresses Retinal and Choroidal Neovascularization in Mice
Cell Reports, 2017 Pathological neovascularization, a leading cause of blindness, is seen in retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration.
Zhongjie Fu +12 more
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Trials, 2011 Background Neovascular age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in people 50 years of age or older in the developed world.
Held Ulrike +4 more
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Treatment as required versus regular monthly treatment in the management of neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Background: To investigate whether treatment as required ‘pro re nata’ (PRN) versus regular monthly treatment regimens lead to differences in outcomes in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
Agostini, Hansjuergen +7 more
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Dietary fatty acids and lipoproteins on progression of age-related macular degeneration [PDF]
, 2017 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a medical condition of central loss vision and blindness. Numerous studies have revealed that changes on certain dietary fatty acids (FAs) could have useful for AMD management.
Abia González, María del Rocío +5 more
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