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Quantitative assessment of central retinal thickness in recurrent neovascular age-related macular degeneration
  1. Chan Chee Yee,
  2. Thanos D Papakostas,
  3. Demetrios G Vavvas
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  1. Correspondence to Chee Yee Chan, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 7 Islington Street, Boston, MA 02134, USA; drchenziyi100{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305673

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    We read with interest the article by Reznicek et al,1 which evaluated the fulfilment of retreatment criteria for recurrent neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We support the notion of qualitative optical coherence tomography (OCT) assessment of the retina. However, we will like to point out some factors that might have affected their conclusion that quantitative OCT-based retreatment criteria appeared not sensitive enough in a clinical setting.

    Reznicek et al1 mentioned that Stratus-OCT was used in the …

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    • Contributors The authors in some way or another had contributed, written or edited this manuscript.

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