Reducing the clinical burden of ranibizumab treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration using an individually planned regimen

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1192-1196

  Mantel, Irmela ^a   Niderprim, Sophie Alexia ^a   Gianniou, Christina ^a   Deli, Angeliki ^a   Ambresin, Aude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84906689604     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304556     Document Type: Article

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