Ranibizumab for exudative age-related macular degeneration in eyes previously treated with alternative vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 182-189

  Ehlers, Justis P ^a   Spirn, Marc J ^a   Shah, Chirag P ^c   Fenton, Gregory L ^a   Baker, Paul S ^a   Regillo, Carl D ^a,b   Ho, Allen C ^a,b  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Mid Atlantic Retina   (United States)

^c Mid Atlantic Retina ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; PEGAPTANIB; RANIBIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77950433114     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20100303-05     Document Type: Article

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