Home OCT-Guided Treatment Versus Treat and Extend for the Management of Neovascular AMD
Jaeb Center for Health Research
Summary
Home optical coherence tomography- guided treatment versus treat and extend for the management of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Description
Treatment of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration (nAMD) with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy is highly effective but is associated with considerable treatment burden and cost for patients and the healthcare system. One of the principal barriers to reducing burden and cost is that the optimal number of injections needed to achieve best visual acuity and disease control for any one person is unknown. At present, there are several algorithms that modestly reduce treatment burden, but at the expense of overtreatment in some patients and less optimal disease control in othe…