What is it about?
Exudative change is usually worse for visual acuity. However, exudative change, such as serous retinal detachment and cystoid macular edema, occur for ischemia of macular. After anti-vascular endotherial growth factor therapy, macular will be temporally ischemia. This study found temporally visual acuity loss, when the macular is excessive "dry".
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Why is it important?
Even though most of ophthalmologists aim only dry macular, this study revealed there is the optimum dryness.
Perspectives
It is recommended to develop the continuous infusion with implantable pomp. Another way is to properly use anti-vascular endotherial growth factor drugs with varying strength to fit disease activity.
Professor Hidenori Takahashi
Jichi Ika Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Visual acuity loss associated with excessive “dry macula” in exudative age-related macular degeneration, Clinical Ophthalmology, February 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s151999.
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