OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY ASSESSMENT OF VASCULAR EFFECTS OCCURRING AFTER AFLIBERCEPT INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS IN TREATMENT-NAIVE PATIENTS WITH WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION

• Published in: Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 37; no. 2; p. 247
• Main Authors: Mastropasqua, Leonardo, Toto, Lisa, Borrelli, Enrico, Carpineto, Paolo, Di Antonio, Luca, Mastropasqua, Rodolfo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Angiogenesis Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Choroid - blood supply; Choroidal Neovascularization - drug therapy; Female; Fluorescein Angiography; Humans; Intravitreal Injections; Male; Middle Aged; Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor - therapeutic use; Recombinant Fusion Proteins - therapeutic use; Regional Blood Flow - drug effects; Retinal Vessels - drug effects; Tomography, Optical Coherence - methods; Visual Acuity; Wet Macular Degeneration - drug therapy

To investigate vessel changes occurring after aflibercept injections in treatment-naive exudative age-related macular degeneration patients. Fifteen eyes of 15 patients affected by wet age-related macular degeneration were enrolled in the study. All the patients had a diagnosis of Type 1 choroidal n...