Subfoveal choroidal thickness as a potential predictor of visual outcome and treatment response after intravitreal ranibizumab injections for typical exudative age-related macular degeneration

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kang, Hae Min ^a,b   Kwon, Hee Jung ^c   Yi, Jeong Ho ^d   Lee, Christopher Seungkyu ^a   Lee, Sung Chul ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b International St Mary's Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Bundang CHA Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Jeil Eye Clinic   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; SUBRETINAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROID; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84898925452     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2014.01.019     Document Type: Article

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