Intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration: results from 118 cases
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- 16 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 91 (12) , 1716-1717
Abstract
A retrospective review of 115 consecutive patients (118 eyes) based at Southampton Eye Unit, treated with intravitreal bevacizumab for CNV was performed. Lesions of all types irrespective of size or location that were either ineligible for photodynamic therapy (PDT) under the National Health Service (including minimally classic and occult CNV) or those not responding to PDT (classic or predominantly classic CNV with recurrent or persistent CNV activity) were included in the study (table 1). All patients underwent visual acuity testing (best corrected Snellen), slitlamp examination and fundus fluorescein angiography. Central macular thickness (CMT) was assessed using Stratus optical coherence tomography (Carl Zeiss Meditec, USA).Keywords
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