Predictability of vitreous detachment following intravitreal plasmin injection in diabetic macular edema associated with vitreomacular traction

Current Eye Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 534-539

  Elbendary, Amal M ^a   Elwan, Mohamed M ^a   Azzam, Hanan A ^a   Eldeeb, Doaa R ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Autologous; Diabetic macular edema; Intravitreal injection; Plasmin; Vitreomacular traction

Indexed keywords

PLASMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTIVITY; THICKNESS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOMACULAR TRACTION; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EGYPT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 79956261810     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.569868     Document Type: Article

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