Photodynamic Therapy-Photodynamic therapy is also used to treat wet macular degeneration. In this procedure, a light reactive drug called Visudyne is administered through intravenous injection. The drug is activated in the eye by a non-thermal laser as it passes through the abnormal blood vessels caused by macular degeneration. The abnormal vessels are destroyed by the procedure. This procedure has largely replaced thermal laser photocoagulation. Submacular Surgery- Submacular surgery is intended to be an alternative to laser surgeries. The procedure involves physically operating on the eye to remove the blood vessels. The trials run using this method produced results that indicated that the macular degeneration treatments procedure had low success relative to laser surgery.
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