By Cynthia Stuen, Aries Arditi, Amy Horowitz, Mary Ann Lang, Bruce Rosenthal, Karen Seidman
Designed for a person attracted to low imaginative and prescient and imaginative and prescient rehabilitation, this quantity displays fresh advances in perform, examine, know-how and layout from foreign views. The articles have been chosen from greater than 750 displays on the overseas convention imaginative and prescient '99. issues conceal the lifestyles span and contain low imaginative and prescient prognosis and administration, schooling and rehabilitation, mobility and environmental issues, entry problems with layout, expertise, the office, overseas types of rehabilitation/habilitation, psychosocial matters, family members involvement and age-related imaginative and prescient loss in addition to expert training of the vision-related crew. international and native public information innovations are incorporated in addition to such particular subject matters as a number of impairments, HIV/AIDS-related imaginative and prescient loss and making plans and service-delivery concerns.
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Jan Roodhooft D ru g t h e r a p y Im p ro v in g th e c h o ro id a l blood flow? Recent studies indicate that the blood flow in the choroid is impaired in patients with AM D. Pentoxifylline is a syn thetic xanthine derivate that has the ability to increase the ocular blood flow due to its direct vasodilator action and due to improved deformability o f erythrocytes and leuko cytes. A double-blind, randomized, parallel group study in dicated that a 3 month treatment with oral pentoxifylline, 400 m g 3 times a day, increases choroidal blood flow in patients with AM D.
Treatment m odali ties should attempt to confine the activity o f these neovas cular m em branes as low as possible. Pharmacological antiangiogenic intervention would e n a ble us to avoid or minimize laser-induced dam age and to treat vessels that cannot be well imaged. It might also be a prophylactic agent for this disease. In te rfe ro n - 2a (Pharmacological T herapy for Macular Degeneration Study G roup. 1997) Interferon-2a inhibits vascular endothelial cell prolifera tion and migration.