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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in patients older than 65 years of age in the industrialized countries and it ranks second after diabetic retinopathy in patients between 45 and 641-4. Almost 30% of persons older than 75 years of age are affected by AMD2,3. The loss of vision can be caused by slow progressive geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (in the atrophic form) or by the complications of a choroidal neovascularization (CNV) (in the exudative form). Drusen, especially large confluent soft drusen are common in eyes predisposed to the ingrowth of CNV.
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Giovannini, A., Amato, G., D’altobrando, E., Mariotti, C., Scassellati-Sforzolini, B. (1998). ICG drusen-like alterations in the course of age-related macular degeneration. In: Coscas, G., Piccolino, F.C. (eds) Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Macular Diseases. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5137-5_55
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