Autologous Transplantation of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Choroid in the Treatment of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  MacLaren, Robert E ^a,b   Uppal, Gurmit S ^a   Balaggan, Kamaljit S ^a,b   Tufail, Adnan ^a   Munro, Peter M G ^b   Milliken, Andrew B ^a   Ali, Robin R ^b   Rubin, Gary S ^b   Aylward, G William ^a,b   da Cruz, Lyndon ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SILICONE OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CATARACT; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EX VIVO GENE TRANSFER; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIMETRY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPERFUSION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINOTOMY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TISSUE GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 33847102621     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.06.049     Document Type: Article

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