BACKGROUND Patients with angioid streaks are prone to developing subretinal hemorrhage after ocular or head injury due to the brittleness of Bruch's membrane. However, there have been no reports of any angioid streak patients in whom choroidal neovascularization occurred after vitrectomy surgery. We report herein a patient with angioid streaks who developed choroidal neovascularization after vi...

N -(Carboxymethyl)lysine (CML) over-stimulates choroidal neovascularization in vitro in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rat. In this study, we investigated the effects of CML-induced choroidal angiogenic potential on retinal neovascularization during the course of STZ-induced diabetes in rats. Retinal and choroidal explants were isolated from the same eyeball of early-diabetic, advanced-diabetic ...

Background: Transpupillary thermotherapy is a new treatment for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization which needs further evaluation. This study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of transpupillary thermotherapy on regression of occult subfoveal choroidal neovascularization with or without pigment epithelial detachment in patients with age-related macular degeneration. Methods: In a case serie...

OBJECTIVE To perform a patient preference-based, incremental cost-effectiveness analysis for laser treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization. DESIGN Computer-based econometric modeling. METHODS The cost effectiveness of laser photocoagulation therapy was compared with the natural course of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization. The model applied long-term visual data from previou...