A review of anti-VEGF agents for proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 510-520

  Osaadon, P ^a   Fagan, X J ^b   Lifshitz, T ^a   Levy, J ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; diabetic retinopathy; panretinal photocoagulation; proliferative diabetic retinopathy; ranibizumab; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; BEVACIZUMAB; PEGAPTANIB; RANIBIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LASER COAGULATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PANRETINAL PHOTOCOAGULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84922391394     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2014.13     Document Type: Review

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