Sentences with phrase «stopping abnormal blood vessel»

For wet AMD, treatments aimed at stopping abnormal blood vessel growth include FDA - approved drugs called Lucentis, Eylea, Macugen and Visudyne used with Photodynamic Therapy or PDT.

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We really wanted to find a compound, a chemical, that would profoundly stop the growth of blood vessel cells, which of course are the cells that go on to form the abnormal angiogenesis in wet AMD.

We know with the wet form that one of the major features is the abnormal blood vessels, and we know that if we stop that we can potentially halt the disease.