PSS9 Economic Burden of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (WAMD) in Urban China

Burden of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration in China.

Wet Age Related Macular Degeneration

Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the developed countries. Approximately 8 million people in America have AMD and the number of advanced AMD is likely to rise by 50% by year 2020 due to the projected increase in the number of elderly people (Friedman et al., 2004). AMD is a condition of significant morbidity in terms of both physical and mental health (...

Current barriers to treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD): findings from the wAMD patient and caregiver survey.

PURPOSE A cross-sectional survey to evaluate the current management of wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD) and to identify barriers to treatment from a patient and caregiver perspective. METHODS An ophthalmologist-devised questionnaire was given to a global cohort of patients who were receiving (or had previously received) antivascular endothelial growth factor injections and to careg...

Imaging of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

All images are acquired on a Spectralis device from Heidelberg Engineering. Image courtesy of Dr. (med) Ke-nan Damer, Birmingham Midlands Eye Centre, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. Fig. 1. a Shows the macula of a left eye with reduced foveal reflectivity on the infra-red picture, which is due to intra-retinal fluid caused by choroidal neovascularization (CNV) related to wet AMD. In b ,...

Evaluation of circulating miRNAs in wet age-related macular degeneration

PURPOSE In the present study, we aimed to investigate the changes in plasma miRNA in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration. METHODS The expression profiles of 384 miRNAs in plasma from 33 patients (22 male, 11 female) who were diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration with fundus examination, fundus fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography and 31 contro...