Conditions: Age-Related Macular Degeneration Macular Degeneration
Keywords: amd age related macular degeneration macular degeneration neovascular
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
To evaluate the visual outcome and number of injections required during an optical coherence tomography (OCT)-guided treat and extend regimen with intravitreal aflibercept for treatment of subfoveal neovascular age-related macular degeneration (NVAMD).

Detailed description:
The purpose of this study is to see how using "treat and extend," a method of determining how often a patient with NVAMD should visit the retina clinic and receive treatments, affects vision in patients with this condition after treatment. The treatment the investigators are using in this study is an eye injection of a drug called aflibercept (also called EYLEA). Eylea is FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved for treatment of wet age related macular degeneration.

The investigators hope that "treat and extend" strikes the right balance between making sure patients get all of the treatments needed, but not giving patients too many treatments (so that the side effects of treatments are minimized and so that patients don't have to make more visits than they need to maintain maximum visual gain). The experimental part of this study is determining this "right balance" of eye injections.

Arms:
arm 1: Patient receives treatment at baseline and week 4 visit. The first time extension criteria are met the follow-up interval will be increased by 4 weeks. Each time the extension criteria is met the interval will be extended by 2 weeks to a maximum of 16 weeks. If a patient is being followed at an 8 week interval but fails to meet extension criteria at a particular visit, treatment will be administered as usual and the follow up interval will be reduced to 4 weeks. If patient is being followed at 10-16 week interval but fails to meet extension criteria at a particular visit, treatment will be administered but the follow-up interval will be reduced by 2 week increments.

Interventions: intervention 1: Intravitreal Aflibercept Injection
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Increased or decreased time between visits

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