Reflux of drug during intra-vitreal anti-VEGF therapies

Seminars in Ophthalmology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 357-360

  Usman Saeed, Muhammad ^a,b   Batra, Ruchika ^a   Qureshi, Farhan ^a   Clark, David ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avastin; Bevazicumab; Dosage; Injection; Ranibizumab; Reflux; Vitreous

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; APPLICATION SITE SWELLING; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL BLEB; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VITREOUS BODY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 80455168302     PISSN: 08820538     EISSN: 17445205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08820538.2011.588648     Document Type: Article

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