People with the "wet" form of age-related macular degeneration Which is the main cause of blindness in the developed world, we have to regularly visit health centers for drug injections directly into the eyeball. Each month, ophthalmologists should check the vision of these patients, and patients have a year to go through six painful eye injection. Alas, many do not maintain such a strict regime and its violation leads to blindness.
But now the American company is preparing to launch in Europe, the latest radiation therapy age-related macular degeneration Which will significantly reduce the need for injections. In some cases, people will be able to dispense with these injections during the year. A small study in 21 International Centre, including King's College London and the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital in Manchester, found that radiation therapy, on average, one-third reduces the need for eye injections. Some patients achieved during radiation therapy, progress has been much more oschutitimym.
Although the exposure itself is only applicable to stop the progression of the disease in a small number of patients this type of therapy led to improvement. For example, they can read one line of letters in the table below eye examination. However, research in the field of long-term exposure Radiation Therapy Which would have confirmed its safety and efficacy have not yet been carried out.
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