The vitreomacular interface in different types of age-related macular degeneration
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Mohamed A Elmasry. Infront of 27 Maarouf Rasafi Street, Kafr Abdou, Roshdi, Alexandria, 21500, Egypt. Moah384@gmail.com

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    AIM: To evaluate the vitreomacular interface in cases with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to compare them to eyes with dry AMD and normal eyes. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional comparative study that included 87 eyes with wet AMD, 42 eyes with dry AMD and 40 eyes without AMD as a control group. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) examination was performed for all patients to assess the vitreomacular interface. RESULTS: In the wet AMD group, 34.5% of cases had vitreomacular adhesion (VMA). Only 14.3% of dry AMD cases and 10% of control cases had VMA. There was a significant difference between the control group and the wet AMD group (P=0.004) as well as the dry and wet AMD group (P=0.017). There was also a significant difference between the incidence of VMA in patients with subretinal choroidal neovascularization (CNV, type 1) and intraretinal CNV (type 2 or type 3) (P=0.020). CONCLUSION: There is an association between posterior vitreous attachment and AMD. There is also an increased incidence of VMA with intra-retinal CNV.

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Mohamed Abd ElMonaem El-Hifnawy, Hisham Ali Ibrahim, Amir Ramadan Gomaa, et al. The vitreomacular interface in different types of age-related macular degeneration. Int J Ophthalmol, 2017,10(2):246-253

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  • Received:February 26,2016
  • Revised:June 29,2016
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  • Online: February 10,2017
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