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Good Hope Hospital Eye Clinic

Case 19 wet armd....repeated lucentis for recurrent fluid formation

 

1924 date of birth, male
2008 Left wet age macular degeneration: distortion of vision over the previous few weeks, 6/6 right, 6/12 left. Right eye drusen only. left eye has two small lobules of retinal pigment epithelial detachment, no exudate or retinal haemorrhage, no fluorescein angiogram available
2009-10 Fluid in left eye responds to lucentis then recurs. 8 Lucentis injections in this period.

 

wet armd: neurosensory detachment needing lucentis
Lucentis flattened the retina ( 2009 photos on left above), green line on graph. But fluid reaccumulates needing Lucentis, as in September this year (photos right above, blue arrow/blue line on graph).
 
home   Case 1: PED/CNV      Case 2: hard drusen       Case 3: CSR     Case 4 CNV      Case 5 Occult      Case 6 soft drusen     Case Pre-macula haem     Case Bests    Case 10  PDT  Case 11 rip    Case 12 CNV   Case 13 CSR & PED    Case 14 Dry/Occult     Case 15 polypoidal    Case 16 myopic early CNV      Case 17 macula hole    case 18 more fluid with oct       case 19 fluid reaccumulates      Case 20 peds & nsd      Case 21 AOFVD  Case 22 AOFVD/ERM    Case 23 speckles    case24 VMT      case 25 epiretinal membrane

 

 

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