At present, the only widely permitted intervention for age-related maculopathy is the use of high-dose antioxidants. However, this treatment only slows progression contained by some patients and does not reverse damage already present. After age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) become exudative (wet, as one of the other people wrote), laser photocoagulation, photodynamic treatment (PDT) with verteporfin, and psychoanalysis with intravitreal pegaptanib sodium are the standard treatments to control choroidal neovascularization (a complication of ARMD).
please minute: the differance between dry and wet ARMD is that drizzling ARMD has progressed to such a scope that the choriod (layer of the eye) grows new blood vessel (neovascularization).
2 types of macular degeneration, dry & wet. Dry is worse. Yout Eye Doc should explain and presribe.
My mother have this and she has go in for laser treatments 7 times.She is of late getting worse every day, We are hoping that she doesn"t turn totally blind.She has probably 10% of her verbs left.She see nothing straight ahead.
THEY HAVE DONE CORNEAL TRANSPLANTS. THE WAITING LIST IS LONGER THAN THE PEOPLE CAN WAIT AND THEY GO BLIND.
my dad have this and has not be offered treatment.
he says although it is a problem, he is not contained by pain.
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