Comparative Safety and Tolerability of Anti-VEGF Therapy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Drug Safety

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 279-293

  Modi, Yasha S ^a   Tanchon, Carley ^a   Ehlers, Justis P ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; METABOLISM; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84939980448     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40264-015-0273-0     Document Type: Review

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