Peripapillary neovascular membrane in a young pregnant woman and prompt response to ranibizumab injections following uneventful delivery

Case Reports in Ophthalmology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-133

  Anastasilakis, Konstantinos ^a   Symeonidis, Chrysanthos ^a   Kaprinis, Konstantinos ^a   Mataftsi, Asimina ^a   Tzamalis, Argyrios ^a   Dimitrakos, Stavros A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Choroidal neovascularization; Pregnancy; Ranibizumab

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; DELIVERY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PAPILLEDEMA; PERIPAPILLARY IDIOPATHIC CHOROID NEOVASCULARIZATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA MACULA NEUROSENSORY DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79957608750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16632699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328385     Document Type: Article

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