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Eylea Injection Treatment of Macular Degeneration
Eylea Injection Treatment Currently, the most common and effective clinical treatment for Advanced Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration is anti-VEGF therapy – which is periodic intravitreal (into the eye) injection of a chemical called an “anti-VEGF”. Eylea (Eylea/VEGF Trap-Eye from Regeneron/Bayer) is one form of anti-VEGF therapy, and recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.…
Treatments for Wet Macular Degeneration
Eylea Injection TreatmentEylea (Eylea/VEGF Trap-Eye from Regeneron/Bayer) is one form of anti-VEGF therapy, and recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Macular Degeneration Treatments
Macular degeneration treatment breakthroughs inspire hope that someday we may see a cure to this disease. Promising treatments, described below, depend upon the stage of disease progression. Treatment for Early Dry AMD The treatment for early dry AMD is generally nutritional therapy, with a healthy diet high in antioxidants to support the cells of the…
Wet Macular Degeneration
Approximately 10-15% of the cases of macular degeneration are the “wet” (exudative) type, sometimes also referred to at neovascular macular degeneration or nAMD. In the “wet” type of macular degeneration, abnormal blood vessels (known as choroidal neovascularization or CNV) grow under the retina and macula. These new blood vessels may then bleed and leak fluid,…
Stargardt Disease Defined
In rare cases–one in 20,000–macular degeneration is diagnosed in children and teenagers. Of those cases, the most common cause is Stargardt disease, named for Karl Stargardt, a German ophthalmologist who first reported a case in his practice in 1901. Sometimes called Stargardt’s disease, Stargardt affects both eyes and develops sometime between the ages of six and twenty, when kids notice difficulties…