ICG-Guided Photodynamic Therapy for Treatment of Retinal Capillary Abnormalities: A Pilot Study

Summary

The purpose of this research is to use an approved drug(Visudyne) for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, which is essentially choroidal neovascularization for permeability and vascular proliferation for the retinal circulation, to treat another permeable abnormality - retinal capillary abnormalities - located eccentric to the central portion of the macula or in the foveal region.

Timeline

Start

2013-04

Primary completion

2015-06

Completion

2015-06

Publications

• Background Yannuzzi LA, Slakter JS, Gross NE, Spaide RF, Costa DL, Huang SJ, Klancnik JM Jr, Aizman A. Indocyanine green angiography-guided photodynamic therapy for treatment of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy: a pilot study. 2003. Retina. 2012 Feb;32 Suppl 1:288-98. doi: 10.1097/iae.0b013e31823f99a9.

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