1. The Results of Nation-Wide Registry of Age-related Macular Degeneration in Korea
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Won Ki Lee, Kuhl Huh, Se Woong Kang, Hyoung Jun Koh, Gwang Yul Chang, Gwang Su Kim, Young Hee Yoon, Yun Young Kim, Tae Gon Lee, Jun Hyun Kim, Tae Kwan Park, Young Duk Kim, Si Yeol Kim, Sang Woong Moon, Sun Ryang Bae, Woo Hoo Nam, Nam Chun Joe, Jung Hee Lee, Young Joon Joe, Kyu Hyung Park, Sang Kook Kim, Jong In Kim, Ha Kyoung Kim, Gwang Ju Choi, Jae Kyoun Ahn, Jae Hoon Kang, Woo Hyok Chang, Dong Cho Lee, Yeon Sung Moon, Young Hun Ohn, Hee Yoon Joe, Hum Chung, Sung Chul Lee, Boo Sup Oum, In Young Kim, Mu Hwan Chang, Sang Jun Lee, Young Wok Joe, Byung Ro Lee, Hee Sung Yoon, Dong Heun Nam, Soon Hyun Kim, Chang Ryong Kim, Ill Han Yoon, Sung Jin Lee, Shin Dong Kim, Sukjun Lee, Su Jeong Song, Su Young Lee, Sung Won Joe, Pill Young Lee, Sung Pyo Park, Hyeoung Chan Kim, Ju Eun Lee, Hyeong Gon Yu, Jae Ryung Oh, Soon Ill Kwon, Oh Woong Kwon, Yeon Sik Yang, Chul Gu Kim, Hyoung Su Kim, and Si Dong Kim
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Past medical history ,genetic structures ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Fundus photography ,Retinal ,Macular degeneration ,medicine.disease ,Occult ,eye diseases ,Ophthalmology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Diabetes mellitus ,Angiography ,medicine ,sense organs ,business - Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the incidence and clinical features of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Korea Methods: Web-based (www.armd-nova.or.kr) registration was conducted for AMD patients aged 50 or more who were newly diagnosed by retinal specialists in Korea from August 20, 2005 to August 20, 2006. Patient data including ophthalmologic examination, fundus photography, fluorescein angiogram and/or indocyanin green angiogram (ICG), past medical history, behavioral habit, combined systemic diseases were up-loaded. Results: Among finally enrolled 1,141 newly diagnosed AMD patients, 690 patients (60.5%) were male and 451 patients (39.5%) were female. The average age of AMD patients was 69.78.0. Early AMD was observed in 190 patients and 951 patients had late AMD. Classic choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) was observed in 18.6% of exudative AMD patients and 63.4 % had occult CNVM. Subfoveal CNVM was observed in 80.4% of the patients with CNVM. Among the 580 exudative AMD eyes that performed indocyanin green angiography (ICG), 184 eyes (31.7%) had polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and 36 eyes (6.2%) showed retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP). Age, male gender, smoking, diabetes and hypertension significantly increased the risk of the AMD among Koreans. Conclusions: Because of the low rate of participation by retinal specialists, definite incidence of AMD was not obtainable. However, the estimated 1-year AMD incidence in the Pusan area of Korea is at least 0.4%. In contrast to Western people, 31.7% of exudative AMD cases were revealed to be PCV and 6.2% were revealed to be RAP. This discrepancy between ethnic groups should be considered in the diagnosis and treatment modality selection of Korean AMD patients.
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- 2010