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Vision loss is gradual but 10% of sufferers may progress to the wet form. Wet macular degeneration is characterized by the formation of new blood vessels in the choroid layer of the retina. These new blood vessels leak fluid or bleed causing a bulge behind the macula and distorting vision.
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AMD is classified as either wet ( neovascular ) or dry (non-neovascular). About 10% of patients who suffer from macular degeneration have wet AMD. This type occurs when new vessels form to improve the blood supply to oxygen-deprived retinal...
http://www.stlukeseye.com/macular_degeneration.htm
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Wet Macular Degeneration (neovascular). In about 10 percent of cases, dry AMD progresses to the more advanced and damaging form of the eye disease. With wet macular degeneration, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid.
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www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amd.htm
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Visudyne sometimes is used in addition to Lucentis or Avastin as a treatment for wet macular degeneration. Other light-activated drugs designed to perform in ways similar to Visudyne also are under investigation.
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www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amd-treatments.htm
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Wet macular degeneration — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this serious eye disease. ... Wet macular degeneration occurs when new blood vessels grow and leak fluid underneath the macula, an area of densely packed light-sensitive cells in the central part of the retina. Most cases of wet...
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www.mayoclinic.com/health/wet-macular-degeneration/DS01...
www.mayoclinic.com/health/wet-macular-degeneration/DS01086
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There's no treatment available to reverse dry macular degeneration. But this doesn't mean you'll eventually lose all of your sight. Dry macular degeneration usually progresses slowly, ... Dry macular degeneration can, however, develop into the more rapidly progressive wet type of macular degeneration at any time.
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www.mayoclinic.com/health/macular-degeneration/DS00284/...
www.mayoclinic.com/health/macular-degeneration/DS00284/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs
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A newer treatment option for patients with wet macular degeneration is photodynamic therapy, which can be performed in a doctor's office. In this procedure, a light-sensitive medication called Visudyne (verteporfin) is injected into a vein in the patient's arm.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) have found that Chlamydia pneumoniae, a bacterium linked to heart disease and capable of causing chronic inflammation, was present in the diseased eye tissue of five out of nine people with neovascular, or "wet," age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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