[Photodynamic therapy with Visudyne in macular degeneration associated with subfoveal classical choroidal...

Photodynamic therapy with the preparation Visudyne (PDT) is the only treatment which retards statistically significantly the decline of vision in patients with age related and myopic macular degeneration with a subfoveal, predominantly classic choroidal neovascularization. The authors present their own experience with the treatment of the first 12 patients. During 6-month treatment a loss of more than 3 lines of ETDRS optotypes was recorded in two patients (17%). The presented results of FTV are consistent with data published abroad. As the one-year therapeutic results in two patients are encouraging, it will be necessary in future to prolong the follow up time and increase the number of patients.