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This eye disease is characterized by Macular Neovascularization (MNV), the formation of vessels that tear through the retinal tissues. Four types of MNV can be distinguished, each representing different levels of severity. Both the aggressiveness of the treatment and the recovery of the patient rely on an early detection and correct diagnosis of the stage of the disease. In this work, we propose the first fully-automatic grading methodology that considers all the four clinical types of MNV at the three most relevant OCTA scanning depths for the diagnosis of AMD. We perform both a comprehensive ablation study on the contribution of said depths and an analysis of the attention maps of the network in collaboration with experts of the domain. Our proposal aims to ease the diagnosis burden and decrease the influence of subjectivity on it, offering a explainable grading through the visualization of the attention of the expert models. 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