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Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Studied with Swept Source OCT

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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic degenerative disease that affects the central retina and is one of the most important causes of blindness in the world and the most frequent cause of irreversible legal blindness among people aged 50 or older in the developed countries [1]. 1.5% of Spain’s population (about 680,000 people) are affected by this disease, whereas in the United States the prevalence is around 6.5% in people aged 40 and older, affecting more than eight million people [2]. These figures are surely going to increase due to the exponential growth and aging of world population, with an estimated 288 million people suffering from the disease in 25 years’ time [3, 4].

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    Ignacio Flores-Moreno MD, PhD & Jorge Ruiz-Medrano MD

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    Ignacio Flores-Moreno MD, PhD, Luis Arias-Barquet MD, PhD & Josep M. Caminal MD, PhD

  3. Castilla-La Mancha University, Albacete, Spain

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Flores-Moreno, I., Arias-Barquet, L., Ruiz-Medrano, J., Ruiz-Moreno, J.M., Caminal, J.M. (2017). Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Studied with Swept Source OCT. In: Michalewska, Z., Nawrocki, J. (eds) Atlas of Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49840-9_7

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