ABSTRACT
Among the age-related diseases that affect vision, age-related macular degeneration is the most frequent cause of blindness in patients older than 60 years. In this communication, we report the full anatomical and functional recovery of a patient diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration 1 year after a single intravitreal injection of dobesilate.
Subject(s)
Calcium Dobesilate/therapeutic use , Macular Degeneration/drug therapy , Aged , Calcium Dobesilate/administration & dosage , Female , Humans , Intravitreal Injections , Macula Lutea/drug effects , Macula Lutea/pathology , Macular Degeneration/pathology , Remission Induction , Tomography, Optical CoherenceABSTRACT
The authors present anatomical and functional evidences of dry age-macular degeneration improvement, after intravitreal treatment with dobesilate. Main outcomes measures were normalisation of retinal structure and function, assessed by optical coherence tomography, fundus-monitored microperimetry, electrophysiology and visual acuity. The effect might be related to the normalisation of the outer retinal architecture.
