Age-related macular degeneration: an overview and update

摘要: Age-related macular degeneration affects a growing number of patients in the elderly population every year, with profound effect on their lifestyle as result visual disability. Visual rehabilitation plays key role maximizing patients' remaining vision, confidence and independence. In recent years, there has been tremendous advance treatment for wet age-related degeneration, an even wider range antiangiogenic agents should be available to improve disease prognosis near future. This paper also gives overview natural course its diagnosis, investigations past/present options.