Early markers of choroidal neovascularization in the fellow eye of patients with unilateral exudative age-related macular degeneration

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 144-149

  Cachulo, Luz ^a,b   Silva, Rufino ^a,b   Fonseca, Pedro ^a,b   Pires, Isabel ^a,b   Carvajal Gonzalez, Santos ^c   Bernardes, Rui ^a   Cunha Vaz, José G ^a  

^a ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATION AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON LIGHT AND IMAGE AIBILI   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related maculopathy; Choroidal neovascularization; Exudative age related macular degeneration

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUSEN; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FUNDUS AUTOFLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DRUSEN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78149343213     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321064     Document Type: Article

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