Sentences with phrase «of patients with macular degeneration»

«We found that intensive doses of statins carry the potential for clearing up the lipid debris that can lead to vision impairment in a subset of patients with macular degeneration,» said Joan W. Miller, M.D., the Henry Willard Williams Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Any breakthrough in this area could be of immediate benefit to thousands of patients with macular degeneration.

Not exact matches

The study included 18 patients, half with age - related macular degeneration and half with Stargardt's macular dystrophy, the leading causes of blindness in adults and juveniles.

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

Patients with age - related macular degeneration who received seven or more eye injections of the drug bevacizumab annually had a higher risk of having glaucoma surgery, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

«We did a long series of studies with thousands of patients and showed that this medication, Lucentis, actually reduced wet macular degeneration,» Scheller recalls.

In July Genentech announced that the drug Lucentis stabilized or even improved vision in a yearlong clinical trial of patients with so - called wet macular degeneration, a form that involves overgrowth of blood vessels.

«For example, patients with Alzheimer's get protein deposits in the brain, and we can see similar deposits in the backs of the eyes of patients who have macular degeneration,» said Friedlander.

Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

The 206 patients in the study shared a number of characteristics, including stable, untreatable, age - related macular degeneration in both eyes with visual acuity no better than 20/80 but no worse than 20/800, along with good peripheral vision.

Age - related macular degeneration is extremely prevalent, with as many as one in 10 patients over the age of 65 affected to some degree.

Roughly 20 percent of patients with age - related macular degeneration suffer from abnormal blood vessel growth and vascular leakage, says Campochiaro, and so may be helped by this new therapy, if it proves to work in clinical trials.

It is important for all patients (and family members of patients) with macular degeneration to know that although the disease can injure the central vision of both eyes severely enough to render one «legally blind,» it is extremely uncommon to cause complete blindness in even a single eye.

Although exciting and promising, none of these experimental treatments has yet been demonstrated to be of significant benefit to patients with typical late - onset macular degeneration.

In 1997, the mainstays of therapy for patients with macular degeneration include daily monitoring of the integrity of their central vision (usually by viewing a simple printed grid) as well as periodic visits to their eye doctor.

In fact, although only 10 percent of patients develop new blood vessels, this complication is responsible for most of the legal blindness associated with macular degeneration.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I / II clinical trial investigating the efficacy of statins (cholesterol - lowering medications) for the treatment of patients with the dry form of age - related macular degeneration (AMD)-- the leading cause of blindness in the developed world.

The researchers detected RPE cells in the eye of the patient with Stargardt disease but not in the patient with age - related macular degeneration.

Takahashi's team transplanted retina cells made from the patient's skin cells into the patient's eye with the goal of treating macular degeneration.

A case review recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine describes how three elderly patients with macular degeneration were blinded after they were treated at a Florida clinic (FL, USA).

«This is the first human trial of this novel stem cell - based implant, which is designed to replace a single - cell layer that degenerates in patients with dry age - related macular degeneration,» says lead author and surgeon for the study Dr. Amir H. Kashani, assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

As a retinal physician, Dr. Handa (co-principal investigator on this project) has witnessed the detrimental impact of vision loss on patients with age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

A pilot study assessing the safety and feasibility of the transplantation of autologous iPSC - derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell sheets in patients with exudative (wet - type) age - related macular degeneration was launched in Japan in August 2013.

They were financed by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company with laboratories in Marlborough, Massachusetts, that recently won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the treatment in 24 patients suffering from either dry advanced macular degeneration, or a juvenile form of the disease known as Stargardt's.

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