PARIS — An international group of retina specialists recently reached consensus on a two-step process for the identification of fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
“In the past, before we had a good treatment with anti-VEGFs, fibrosis was very obvious. On color photos, diagnosing a pale, elevated lesion in the macula was relatively easy. But with the good anti-VEGF treatments that we have now, fibrosis tends to be more subtle, thinner and appearance on color photos may not be so obvious,” Gemmy Cheung, MD, PhD, of Singapore National Eye Centre, (Read more...)