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Table 1 Patient demographics and baseline ocular findings in type1 CNV and type 2 CNV group

From: Analyses of the effects of persistent subretinal fluid on visual/anatomic outcomes according to the type of macular neovascularization during the relaxed treat-and-extend protocol in age-related macular degeneration patients

Characteristics.

Type 1 CNV group (n = 77)

Type 2 CNV group (n = 53)

p-value

Age, years (mean ± SD)

74.2 ± 7.2

76.6 ± 7.3

0.067

Sex, male/female (%)

51/26 (66/34)

29/24 (55/45)

0.072

Lens status, phakic/pseudophakic (%)

57/20 (74/26)

33/20 (62/38)

0.153

Best-corrected visual acuity, logMAR (mean ± SD)

0.54 ± 0.30

0.75 ± 0.36

0.001

Central subfield retinal thickness, μm (mean ± SD)

398.06 ± 123.07

436.74 ± 131.05

0.089

Subfoveal choroidal thickness, μm (mean ± SD)

293.64 ± 79.97

229.32 ± 76.76

< 0.001

Anti-VEGF, n (%)

  

0.324

 Bevacizumab

10 (13)

5 (9)

 

 Ranibizumab

12 (15)

12 (23)

 

 Aflibercept

39 (51)

20 (38)

 

 Mixed

16 (21)

16 (30)

 

No. of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections (mean ± SD)

 1 year

7.0 ± 1.6

6.8 ± 1.4

0.436

 2 year

5.1 ± 1.9

5.1 ± 1.4

0.940

 Total

12.0 ± 3.0

11.8 ± 2.4

0.631

Fluid on OCT at baseline, n (%)

 SRF

77 (100)

49 (92)

0.014

 IRF

2 (3)

39 (74)

< 0.001

  1. CNV choroidal neovascularization, SD standard deviation, logMAR logarithm of the minimal angle of resolution, VEGF vascular endothelial growth factor, OCT optical coherence tomography