Changes of choroidal structure after intravitreal aflibercept therapy for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 56-61

  Daizumoto, Erina ^a   Mitamura, Yoshinori ^a   Sano, Hiroki ^a   Akaiwa, Kei ^a   Niki, Masanori ^a   Yamanaka, Chihiro ^a   Kinoshita, Takamasa ^a   Egawa, Mariko ^a   Sonoda, Shozo ^b   Sakamoto, Taiji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choroid; Imaging; Macula; Neovascularisation; Treatment Medical

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PACHYCHOROID INDEX; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; PROGNOSIS; RETINA FOVEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CHOROID DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 85016938592     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2016-309694     Document Type: Article

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