[A long-term follow-up of the follow eye of unilateral wet senile macular degeneration].

The fellow eyes of 30 cases with unilateral wet age related macular degeneration (ARMD) were followed up for more than 5 years. On fundus and fluorescein angiographic examinations, it is demonstrated that a half of them showed normal fundi and the rest of them showed drusens and/or retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) changes. During the follow-up period, 4 cases developed subretinal neovascular membrane at the 5th, 6th, 10th, and 11th year, respectively. Of them, essentially normal fundi were in 2 cases, macular drusens in 1 case and RPE changes in another case at the first visit. The results indicate that the fellow eye of unilateral wet ARMD may develop subretinal neovascular membrane after a long period of time.