Short-term progression of wet AMD and correlation with 1-year treatment results

Acta Ophthalmologica
Marion MunkUrsula Schmidt-Erfurth

Abstract

Quantification of short-term progression of active neovascular age-related macular degeneration and correlation with 1-year outcome. Sixty-five patients with newly diagnosed treatment-naive active subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV), who had participated in clinical trials testing anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy, were retrospectively assessed. Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) and fluorescein angiography (FA) were performed twice during the pretreatment period. Changes in BCVA, central retinal thickness (CRT), average macular thickness (AMT) and leakage area were documented within this pretreatment period for all patients and for lesion type I (occult CNV, n=42) and type II (classic CNV, n=23). Three-month and 1-year BCVA were then correlated with the pretreatment period. The pretreatment period was 19±3 days (range: 2-108). Neither type I nor type II lesions showed a significant BCVA decrease or CRT/AMT increase during this period. On FA, mean leakage area increased significantly during the pretreatment period: in the pooled group from 5.50±0.62 (screening) to 7.60±0.86 mm2 (baseline) (p<0.0001), in type...Continue Reading

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Jul 31, 2013·American Journal of Ophthalmology·Marion R MunkUrsula Schmidt-Erfurth

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