Severe loss of vision after removal of cataract caused by intravitreal triamcinolone in combination with photodynamic therapy for exudative age-related macular degeneration

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 544-545

  Larsson, Jörgen ^a   Gillies, Mark C ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cataract extraction; Exudative macular degeneration; Intravitreal triamcinolone; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHORIORETINOPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUSEN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OCULAR FIBROSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; SCAR FORMATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLINDNESS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG COMBINATION; INJECTION; LETTER; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 33644814450     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.01082.x     Document Type: Article

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