The Treatment Paradigm for the Implantable Miniature Telescope

Advanced or end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results in significant visual impairment and a substantially reduced quality of life for patients. Therapeutic options for people with bilateral moderate or profound vision loss caused by end-stage AMD are limited. Although medical treatme...

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Autores principales: Hau, Vincent S., London, Nikolas, Dalton, Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2016
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27067097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40123-016-0047-5
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description Advanced or end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results in significant visual impairment and a substantially reduced quality of life for patients. Therapeutic options for people with bilateral moderate or profound vision loss caused by end-stage AMD are limited. Although medical treatment capable of reversing the functional vision loss that results from end-stage AMD is non-existent, there are now treatments that can reverse some of that functional vision loss, including the implantable miniature telescope (IMT). This review article discusses the science behind the IMT, evaluates the data from clinical studies, and weighs the pros and cons of the technology.
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spelling pubmed-49096742016-07-01 The Treatment Paradigm for the Implantable Miniature Telescope Hau, Vincent S. London, Nikolas Dalton, Michelle Ophthalmol Ther Review Advanced or end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) results in significant visual impairment and a substantially reduced quality of life for patients. Therapeutic options for people with bilateral moderate or profound vision loss caused by end-stage AMD are limited. Although medical treatment capable of reversing the functional vision loss that results from end-stage AMD is non-existent, there are now treatments that can reverse some of that functional vision loss, including the implantable miniature telescope (IMT). This review article discusses the science behind the IMT, evaluates the data from clinical studies, and weighs the pros and cons of the technology. Springer Healthcare 2016-04-11 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4909674/ /pubmed/27067097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40123-016-0047-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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