ReviewClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2015
Stereotactic radiotherapy for wet age-related macular degeneration: current perspectives.
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- Small Extracellular Vesicles' miRNAs: Biomarkers and Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Diseases.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Brachytherapy for Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2022Article
- In vitro evaluation of simulated stereotactic radiotherapy for wet age-related macular degeneration on three different cell lines.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Engineered exosomes: desirable target-tracking characteristics for cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease therapies.Theranostics · 2021Review
- Recent Developments in the Treatment of Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration.Current medical science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness in the developed world. Currently, the treatment of choice is intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF medications. These require frequent dosing, up to monthly, and impose a substantial burden on patients and the health economy. Ionizing radiation was proposed as a possible treatment for age-related macular degeneration due to its anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic properties. Stereotactic radiotherapy is an outpatient-based radiotherapy platform that provides stereotactic application of low energy X-ray to the retina in three highly collimated beams that cross the inferior sclera to overlap at the macula. A randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled trial of 230 patients (INTREPID) showed that a single dose of stereotactic radiotherapy significantly reduces the number of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections needed over 2 years. A larger randomized controlled trial (STAR) is underway.
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