Failure to detect an effect of pneumatic displacement in the management of submacular haemorrhage secondary to age-related macular degeneration: A retrospective case series

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Hesgaard, Helena Buch ^a   Torkashvand, Mandana ^a   La Cour, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLUROPROPANE; PROPANE; RANIBIZUMAB; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GAS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMATIC DISPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ENDOTAMPONADE; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PRONE POSITION; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84865682389     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.02352.x     Document Type: Letter

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