Subfoveal choroidal thickness changes after intravitreal bevacizumab therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration

• 作者: Betul Ilkay Sezgin Akcay Betul Onal Gunay Cihan ünlü Esra Kardes Gurkan Erdogan
• 来源期刊: 国际眼科杂志：英文版
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: choroidal MACULAR DEGENERATION GEOGRAPHIC Training OLDER write ATROPHY Turkey ACUITY
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（4）
• 页码范围: 849-851
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: R774.5

摘要

【正】Dear Sir,Iam Dr.Cihanünlü,from the Department of Opthalmology,ümraniye Training and Research Hospital,Istanbul,Turkey.I write to present our study findings on subfoveal choroidal thickness(SFCT)changes after intravitreal bevacizumab(IVB)therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration(AMD).AMD is the leading cause of severe visual loss in adults older than 60y[1].Visual loss in late stages of AMD may be the result of one of the two processes:geographic atrophy(GA)or choroidal neovascularization(CNV).Many types of