Bevacizumab and neovascular age related macular degeneration: Pathogenesis and treatment

Seminars in Ophthalmology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 69-76

  El Mollayess, Georges M ^a   Noureddine, Baha N ^a   Bashshur, Ziad F ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; bevacizumab; choroidal neovascularization; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; PEGAPTANIB; RANIBIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATARACT; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL RETINAL THICKNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE INFLAMMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; MACROPHAGE; MITOGENESIS; MOLECULAR SIZE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; RETINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79957601631     PISSN: 08820538     EISSN: 17445205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08820538.2010.545100     Document Type: Review

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