Relationship of drusen and abnormalities of the retinal pigment epithelium to the prognosis of neovascular macular degeneration

SB Bressler, MG Maguire, NM Bressler… - Archives of …, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
• We graded macular features of 127 fellow eyes of participants in the Macular
Photocoagulation Study who had an extrafoveal choroidal neovascular membrane
secondary to age-related macular degeneration in the first eye and no initial evidence of the
neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration in the fellow eye. Our aims were to
determine the relationship of drusen characteristics and retinal pigment epithelial
abnormalities to the risk of subsequent development of neovascularization in the fellow eye …