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Geographic Atrophy Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Geographic atrophy (GA) represents a common end stage of various retinal diseases including advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). While choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is the most common cause of acute severe visual loss in AMD, approximately 20 % of AMD patients who are legally blind have lost central vision due to GA (Friedman et al. 2004; Klaver et al. 1998; Klein et al. 2002; Mitchell et al. 1995; Sunness et al. 1999).

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Lindner, M., Fleckenstein, M., Steinberg, J., Schmitz-Valckenberg, S., Holz, F.G. (2017). Geographic Atrophy Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration. In: Meyer, C., Saxena, S., Sadda, S. (eds) Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Macular Diseases. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3610-8_14

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