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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Photodynamic therapy versus anti-vascular endothelial growth factor agents for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy: A meta-analysis

First Author (year)

Design

Center

Location

Type of OCT

PDT

anti-VEGF

Sex(male/female)

Agea(year)

Follow- upa(mo)

No. eyes/patients

No. eyes/patients

PDT

anti-VEGF

Mitamura(2010)22

Retro

1

Japan

TD-OCT

49/49

22/22

7/42

5/17

73.0/69.6

3/3

Rouvas (2011)7

Retro

2

Greece

SD-OCT

11/11

10/10

6/5

5/5

62.9/66.5

12/12

Koh (2012)21

RCT

7

Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

TD-OCT

21/21

21/21

15/6

15/6

62.2/69.3

6/6

Oishi (2013)19

RCT

5

Japan

SD-OCT

47/47

46/46

32/15

28/18

75.0/75.4

12/12

Inoue (2013)20

Retro

1

Japan

SD-OCT

44/44

33/33

30/14

19/14

71.0/73.2

24/24

Kang (2014)18

Retro

1

Korea

TD-OCT

19/19

23/23

NA

NA

66.2/68.0

24/24

  1. aPDT group/anti-VEGF group
  2. PDT photodynamic therapy; VEGF vascular endothelial growth factor; mo months; Retro retrospective comparative study; TD-OCT time-domain optical coherence tomography; SD-OCT spectral-domain optical coherence tomography; RCT prospective randomized controlled