Intravitreal bevacizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration with or without prior treatment with photodynamic therapy: One-year results

Retina

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-92

  Carneiro, Ângela M ^a,b   Falcão, Manuel S ^a,b   Brandão, Elisete M ^a   Falcão Reis, Fernando M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA TEAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 75149178678     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181c700a9     Document Type: Article

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