Thermal Laser Treatment in AMD: Therapeutic and Prophylactic

Novel Drug Delivery Systems for Retinal Diseases

“…1 c, d) [10] . Destructive modalities using lasers have dominated the therapeutic approaches to control CNV; unfortunately, these modalities were usually associated with continued central vision loss and rarely an improvement of vision [11,12] . More recently, pharmaceutical intervention using angiostatic compounds has had a dramatic effect on the natural history of CNV and has improved or stabilized the visual acuity in a number of patients [13][14][15] .…”