Experience with aflibercept for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging Retina

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 542-549

  He, Lingmin ^a   Silva, Ruwan A ^a   Ayoub, Noel ^a   Moshfeghi, Darius M ^a   Leng, Theodore ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SUBFIELD THICKNESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84930420653     PISSN: 23258160     EISSN: 23258179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/23258160-20150521-05     Document Type: Article

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