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Fortunately for people with wet macular degeneration, there are several treatment options and more being developed. These are aimed at sealing off the leaking blood vessels (with a laser and light sensitive drug) and/or preventing the blood vessels from growing back (these last are called anti-angiogenic therapies).
Repeated treatments are necessary, as often as once a month, but doctors are now finding that treatments can be spaced further apart and still be effective. Each eye is different, so your doctor will watch carefully how you respond and will recommend what works best for you.
With multiple treatment options available, your doctor can advise you which therapy will probably be best for your case. Early detection and treatment are key to good results of any therapy for wet macular degeneration. All these treatments work better if applied early in an episode of bleeding. The goal of current treatments is to stop or slow the progression of wet AMD. While it is possible to restore some vision in patients treated early, none of the therapies can restore vision in an eye with scarring.
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Lucentis
The latest in a group of anti-angiogenic drugs, Lucentis acts against the growth of the new blood vessels of wet or exudative macular degeneration. Nearly all patients (95 percent) treated with LUCENTIS maintained their vision in the Phase III clinical trials.
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Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a laser treatment that is still being used to treat patients with wet AMD, though much less frequently now that useful drugs are available.
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Photocoagulation Therapy is a "hot laser" treatment. With the advent of newer therapies, very few "hot" lasers are performed. For years, photocoagulation was the only treatment available for wet AMD.
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