Current treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are limited to the later form of the disease. Both complications and high costs should be expected with outpatient surgery. The laser ...

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in those who are age 50 or older. In fact, almost 20 million people in the U.S. have some type of age-related macular ...

The aim of this article is to give an overview of several modalities of treatment of CNV in myopes, including laser photocoagulation ... patients with myopic macular degeneration complicated ...

Medically reviewed by Johnstone M. Kim, MD Macular degeneration is very common and affects an estimated 19.8 million people in the United States. Approximately one in 10 Americans age 50 and older ...

Photodynamic therapy with verteporfin of CNV represents an advancement in the treatment of myopic macular degeneration complicated ... without the complications of laser photocoagulation.

Worldwide, age-related macular ... a laser beam into your eye. This activates the drug to close off these new blood vessels.

In 2003 his right eye developed wet age-related macular degeneration, in which abnormal blood vessels leak fluid into the back of the eye. The result can be permanent blindness. Both eyes had ...