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  • Title: Let us wake the nation on the treatment for age-related macular degeneration.
    Author: Brown G, Brown MM.
    Journal: Curr Opin Ophthalmol; 2010 May; 21(3):169-71. PubMed ID: 20397317.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To assess stakeholder perceptions of the quality of life associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). RECENT FINDINGS: Ophthalmologists underestimate patient quality of life associated with AMD by 96-750%, more so at the better end of the visual spectrum. Other physicians and the general population have essentially no appreciation for the great quality-of-life loss associated with severe AMD. They equate it with the quality of life associated with entities such as carpal tunnel syndrome and ureteral calculi. SUMMARY: Ophthalmologists should educate colleagues and the general population about the severe quality-of-life loss associated with untreated AMD. There is gross under appreciation of the ravages of the disease, whereas the same can be said for vascular endothelial growth factor A therapy, one of the greatest advances across all of medicine in the past decade.
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