Sentences with phrase «patient with macular degeneration»

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

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.

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).

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.

«Patients with macular degeneration show improvement with high - dose statin treatment.»

In approximately 10 percent of patients with macular degeneration, the injury to the retinal pigment epithelium stimulates the choroidal blood vessels to grow up into the RPE and retina — seemingly in an attempt to heal the defects in these layers.

While undergoing treatment in what was described as a clinical trial, three elderly patients with macular degeneration were blinded after being administered a treatment based on autologous adipose tissue.

This high - magnification image shows a retinal hemorrhage in a patient 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.

In 2011 NYSCF awarded Dr. Pete Coffey the inaugural NYSCF — Robertson Stem Cell Prize for his pioneering work bringing stem cell therapies to patients with macular degeneration...