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26th Annual Meeting of the German Retina Society

German Retina Society

27.09.2013, Hamburg

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The choroid in AMD

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  • Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg - Bonn, Germany

Retinologische Gesellschaft. 26. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft. Hamburg, 27.-27.09.2013. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2013. Doc13rg21

doi: 10.3205/13rg21, urn:nbn:de:0183-13rg219

Published: August 20, 2013

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The role of the choroid in AMD is controversial. Whether any visible degenerative changes may have a major impact in the disease process or are rather secondary to initial disease mechanisms is still matter to debate. Various innovative retinal in-vivo imaging methods allow for a better assessment of the choroid and its function. Phenotyping may be particularly helpful to identify specific AMD subtypes in which choroidal malperfusion may be key to the pathogenesis while outer retinal changes such as degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium or the photoreceptors would be only attributable to epiphenomena.