Single-site Baseline and Short-term Outcomes of Clinical Characteristics and Life Quality

Single-site Baseline and Short-term Outcomes of Clinical Characteristics and Life Quality Evaluation of Chinese Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration

Patients in Routine Clinical Practice

Li-Li Wang;Wen-Jia Liu;Hai-Yun Liu;Xun Xu

【期刊名称】《中华医学杂志（英文版）》 【年(卷),期】2015(128)009

【摘要】Background:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss among the older population.In China,treatment of age-related ocular diseases is becoming a priority in eye care services.This study was to investigate the clinical characteristics and quality of life of Chinese patients with wet AMD and current treatment types,to evaluate short-term gains in different treatments,and to investigate associations between visual function and vision-related quality

of

life

(VRQoL).Methods:A

prospective,observational,noninterventional study was conducted.Basic data were collected from patients with clinical diagnoses of wet AMD before clinical assessments at baseline.VRQoL was measured with the Chinese version of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI VFQ-25).Correlations of the NEI VFQ-25 subscale scores with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and between-group differences were analyzed.Results:A total of 80 wet AMD patients were