Authors: Mitsuhiro Imasawa Toyoaki Tsumura Arata Sekine Toyohiko Kikuchi Hiroyuki Iijima
Publish Date: 2009/11/01
Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 588-592
Abstract
We retrospectively reviewed the records of 40 eyes of 39 PCV patients 28 men 11 women who underwent PDT The followup period ranged from 12 to 42 months Bestcorrected visual acuity BCVA improved more than 02 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution logMAR units at the final examination in 22 55 of the 40 eyes which were classified into the “Improved group” The other 18 eyes with improvement of ≤02 logMAR units were classified into the “Not Improved group”The baseline MD in the Improved group was significantly better than that in the Not Improved group P = 00144 Multivariate analysis confirmed that only the baseline MD was associated with improvement of the final BCVA showing that eyes with better baseline MD tended to exhibit improvement of the final BCVA after PDT for PCV odds ratio = 1303 95 confidence interval 1069–1588
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