A Look Back at the Evolution in the Management of Exudative (Wet) Age-Related Macular Degeneration

SriniVas R. Sadda, MD

April 19, 2022

In the course of recalling a patient experience involving an initial aggravation of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in order to effect a greater long-term benefit, SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, considers how the evolution of treatment for AMD has relegated such agonizing measures to the past.

Dr Sadda discusses how anti-VEGF therapy in particular has produced a far more positive clinical scene, and that vision outcomes have been dramatically improved. The result is retained physical and social functionality for patients to a degree that had previously been thought unattainable.

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