A Review of Current and Future Management of Geographic Atrophy.

ABSTRACT: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial disease and a leading cause of vision impairment in elderly people in Western society. Geographic atrophy (GA), the late stage of dry AMD, is typically defined as a round or oval area of atrophy of 175 µm or more. In GA patients, visual acuity (VA) can still be good if the macula is spared, but decreased if GA extends through the fovea causing a great impairment of quality of life. Because of a poor correlation between VA and GA lesions or progression, a multimodal imaging approach is necessary to better follow up GA patients. In the last years, the introduction in clinical practice of new non-invasive tools such as fundus autofluorescence, structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography helped the ophthalmologist

SUBMITTER: Sacconi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5449305 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature