Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. paul.bernstein@hsc.utah.edu.
Department of Ophthalmology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, Japan.
Department of Medical Spectroscopy, Institute for Medical Photonics Research, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education & Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Vision Science Research Group (CIVIUS), Department of Physics of Condensed Matter - Optics Area, Av. de la Reina Mercedes, S/N, 41012 Sevilla, University of Seville, Spain. Electronic address: mgarcia118@us.es.
Center for Cognitive and Brain Health, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Department of Physical Activity, Movement, & Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Center for Cognitive and Brain Health, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Beckman Institute for the Advancement of Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness and can progress to geographic atrophy (GA) in late stages of disease. This review article highlights recent literature...
Technology for diagnosing and monitoring GA has made significant advances in recent years, particularly regarding the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT). Identification of imaging features whic...
Identification of GA and of risk factors for GA development or progression is essential when counseling AMD patients and discussing prognosis. With new therapies on the horizon for the treatment of GA...
Geographic atrophy (GA) is a late-stage form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) characterized by the expansion of atrophic lesions in the outer retina. There are currently no approved pharmacol...
A literature search on GA was conducted....
Expansion of atrophic lesions in patients with GA is associated with a decline in several measures of visual function. GA lesion size has been moderately associated with measures obtained through micr...
GA is a progressive disease associated with irreversible vision loss. Therefore, the lack of treatment options presents a significant unmet need. OCT and drugs under investigation for GA are promising...
With the prospect of available therapy for geographic atrophy in the near future and consequently increasing patient numbers, appropriate management strategies for the clinical practice are needed. Op...
To elucidate the clinical characteristics and progression rate of geographic atrophy (GA) associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a Japanese population....
Retrospective, multicenter, observational study....
A total of 173 eyes from 173 patients from 6 university hospitals in Japan were included. Of 173 study eyes, 101 eyes from 101 patients were included in the follow-up group. All patients were Japanese...
The GA area was measured semiautomatically using fundus autofluorescence (FAF) images. In the follow-up group followed for > 6 months with FAF images, the GA progression rate was calculated by 2 metho...
Clinical characteristics of GA and the GA progression rate....
The mean age was 76.8 ± 8.8 years, and 109 (63.0%) were males. Sixty-two (35.8%) patients had bilateral GA. The mean GA area was 3.06 ± 4.00 mm...
Certain clinical characteristics of GA in Asian populations may differ from those in White populations. Asian patients with GA showed male dominance and relatively thicker choroid than White patients....
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To compare clinical and imaging characteristics of extensive macular atrophy with pseudodrusen-like appearance (EMAP) versus diffuse-trickling geographic atrophy (DTGA) and non-diffuse-trickling geogr...
Geographic atrophy (GA) is currently an untreatable condition. Emerging evidence from recent clinical trials show that anti-complement therapy may be a successful treatment option. However, several tr...
To describe the occurrence, rate of geographic atrophy (GA) expansion, and changes in visual acuity (VA) after reabsorption of subfoveal pigment epithelial detachments (PED)....
Included patients had reabsorption of a PED followed by GA. Patients underwent clinical examination with SD-OCT. Images were classified by size with grading occurring post reabsorption. VA was recorde...
The average age of the cohort, consisting of 22 eyes from 19 participants, was 86.9 years at reabsorption. Prior to reabsorption, the VA was 20/80 and then declined to 20/200 (p = 0.001) with an avera...
This study longitudinally examined GA growth rate in patients with reabsorbed PEDs. These patients started with a drusenoid or serous PED, had a dramatic reduction in vision and GA that occurred in pl...
To investigate the association of nascent geographic atrophy (GA) preceding the development of exudative type 3 macular neovascularization (MNV) in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Retrospective longitudinal study....
Patients with AMD diagnosed with treatment-naive exudative type 3 MNV in 1 or both eyes were evaluated. Inclusion criteria included serial tracked structural OCT examinations for ≥ 2 years before the ...
Clinical characteristics and retinal imaging, including structural OCT at baseline and at each follow-up examination, were analyzed. Eyes showing the presence of nascent GA during the follow-up were s...
Description of the prevalence and clinical characteristics of nascent GA at the site of subsequent type 3 MNV development....
Overall, 97 eyes affected by type 3 MNV meeting inclusion criteria were analyzed. Of 97 eyes (71 patients), 22 eyes of 21 patients (mean age 82 ± 9 years) showed nascent GA preceding exudative type 3 ...
As nascent GA may precede the development of exudative type 3 MNV, the detection of nascent GA in eyes with AMD may warrant closer surveillance to identify early exudative type 3 MNV warranting treatm...
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Geographic Atrophy (GA) is the advanced form of the non-neovascular ('dry') type of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and responsible for one-quarter of legal blindness in the UK. New therapies d...
Twenty-eight participants took part in this exercise. The exercise demonstrated that participants were generally, although not unanimously, in favour of less frequent treatment for GA that was slightl...
The atrophic late stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is termed geographic atrophy (GA), and affects visual acuity (VA) as well as quality of life (QoL). Previous studies have found that b...
This was prospective clinical study of 51 patients with GA in one or both eyes, of these 45 patients had bilateral GA. Patients were consecutively included between April 2021 and February 2022. All pa...
We found an overall low score in each VFQ-39 subscale scores reflected by GA. Lesion size and VA were both significantly associated with all VFQ-39 subscale scores except for "general health." VA show...
Both atrophic lesion size and visual acuity affects QoL in Danish patients with GA, who reports an overall poor QoL. CVD seems to have a negative effect on disease, as well as in VFQ-39 in several sub...
