Login / Signup

Plasma markers of chronic low-grade inflammation in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Yousif SubhiMarie Krogh NielsenChristopher Rue MolbechAkio OishiAmardeep SinghMogens Holst NissenTorben Lykke Sørensen
Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2018)
Patients with PCV differ from patients with neovascular AMD in terms of plasma inflammaging profile. Apart from increased CRP, no signs of inflammaging were observed in patients with PCV. In patients with neovascular AMD, we find a specific angiogenesis-twisted inflammaging profile.
Keyphrases
  • age related macular degeneration
  • low grade
  • high grade
  • oxidative stress
  • endothelial cells
  • vascular endothelial growth factor