"Wet Macular Degeneration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of RETINAL DEGENERATION in which abnormal CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION occurs under the RETINA and MACULA LUTEA, causing bleeding and leaking of fluid. This leads to bulging and or lifting of the macula and the distortion or destruction of central vision.
| Descriptor ID |
D057135
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.768.585.439.622
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| Concept/Terms |
Wet Macular Degeneration- Wet Macular Degeneration
- Degeneration, Wet Macular
- Degenerations, Wet Macular
- Macular Degeneration, Wet
- Macular Degenerations, Wet
- Wet Macular Degenerations
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wet Macular Degeneration" by people in Profiles.
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Dabigatran and Wet AMD, Results From Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell Monolayers, the Mouse Model of Choroidal Neovascularization, and Patients From the Medicare Data Base. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:896274.