Transient accumulation of subretinal fluid after half-fluence photodynamic therapy in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is known to occlude choroidal neovascularisation selectively, and there have been several reports on its adverse effects on the normal choroid and retinal pigment epithelium, resulting in decreased vision.

Methods

This retrospective interventional case series aimed to investigate the changes in visual acuity and retinal thickness in the immediate post-treatment period after half-fluence PDT, administered alone or with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor and steroids, in 29 eyes (26 patients) with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. The patients' best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central foveal thickness (CFT) on optical coherence tomography images were measured 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month post-treatment.

Results

SUBMITTER: Kim MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature