treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration is called
Macular degeneration Prevention includes exercising, eating well, and not smoking.[1] Antioxidant vitamins and minerals do not appear to be useful for prevention.[4] There is no cure or treatment that returns vision already lost.[1] In the wet form, anti-VEGF medication injected into the eye or less commonly laser coagulation or photodynamic therapy may slow worsening.[1] Supplements in those who already have the disease may slow progression.[5]
Atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD) is a specific form of arteriosclerosis in which an artery wall thickens as a result of invasion and accumulation of white blood cells (macrophages and foam cells) and proliferation of intimal-smooth-muscle cell creating an atheromatous (fibrofatty) plaque.[1][2]