Photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascular disease: photosensitizers and clinical trials
| Autor: | Jennifer I. Lim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Moderate to severe
medicine.medical_specialty Visual acuity genetic structures business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Photodynamic therapy Disease Macular degeneration medicine.disease eye diseases Lutetium texaphyrin Clinical trial Ophthalmology Pathologic myopia Medicine sense organs medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Ophthalmology Clinics of North America. 15:473-478 |
| ISSN: | 0896-1549 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0896-1549(02)00044-5 |
| Popis: | Photodynamic therapy with visudyne for choroidal neovascular disease (CNV) has proved effective at preventing moderate to severe visual loss in eyes with subfoveal predominantly classic CNV or occult-only CNV caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and in eyes with subfoveal CNV caused by pathologic myopia. PDT is not meant to improve visual acuity. It should, therefore, be used in eyes with potentially useful macular vision. Clinical trials are under way to evaluate the usefulness of early retreatment with PDT and visudyne at 6 weeks for reducing the risk for moderate visual loss in eyes with predominantly classic CNV, the efficacy of PDT with visudyne for the treatment of AMD in eyes with minimally classic CNV, and the efficacy of PDT for use with SnET2, lutetium texaphyrin, and Npe6. |
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