Verteporfin (trade name Visudyne), a benzoporphyrin derivative, is a medication used as a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy to eliminate the abnormal blood vessels in the eye associated with conditions such as the wet form of macular degeneration. Verteporfin accumulates in these abnormal blood vessels and, when stimulated by nonthermal red...
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(vur″tә-por´fin) a photosensitizing agent that accumulates preferentially in neovasculature, including that in the choroid, such as occurs in age-related macular degeneration, ocular histoplasmosis, or pathologic myopia; the agent is then activated by light of a specific wavelength in the presence of oxygen,...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: vĕr-tē-pōr′fin Definitions: 1. Photosensitizer agent used in photodynamic therapy to treat choroidal neovascularization secondary to age related macular degeneration.
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