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Long-term outcome of neovascular age-related macular degeneration: association between treatment outcome and major risk alleles.

Brice Nguedia VofoGala BeykinJaime LevyItay Chowers
Published in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2021)
Patients with nvAMD who received anti-VEGF therapy for 10 years developed substantial vision loss associated with the presence of IRF at baseline and macular atrophy. Major risk alleles for AMD in two complement genes were associated with a reduced long-term reduction in macular thickness.
Keyphrases
  • age related macular degeneration
  • optical coherence tomography
  • genome wide
  • vascular endothelial growth factor
  • dendritic cells
  • diabetic retinopathy
  • transcription factor