Long-term visual and microperimetry outcomes following autologous retinal pigment epithelium choroid graft for neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-285

  Chen, Fred K ^a,b   Uppal, Gurmit S ^a   Maclaren, Robert E ^a,b,c   Coffey, Peter J ^a,b   Rubin, Gary S ^b,c   Tufail, Adnan ^a   Aylward, G William ^a   Da Cruz, Lyndon ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMD; Microperimetry; RPE; Transplantation; Vitreoretinal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; AUTOLOGOUS RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CHOROID GRAFT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PERIMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449129958     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2009.01915.x     Document Type: Article

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