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View Post: Optical Coherence Tomography Predictors of Retinal Pigment ...
26 Nov 2009
PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective observational case series of 24 consecutive patients treated with bevacizumab. All patients had sequential OCT scans performed before treatment and during follow-up. Six patients developed an RPE tear. ...
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View Post: Effect of Intravitreal Injection of High-Dose Bevacizumab in ...
23 Sep 2009 by Sakurai, K., Akiyama, H., Shimoda, Y.,...  
At baseline, 3 days, 1 week, and 4 weeks after bevacizumab injection, full-field ERG responses were recorded simultaneously from the experimental and control eyes using a synchronized trigger and summing amplifier (Primus; Mayo, Nagoya, ...
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View Post: What's New from the Office of Oncology Drug Products*
FDA ...
6 Nov 2009 ...
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View Post: Wet Macular Degeneration Intravitreal Injection: Treating Wet AMD ...
17 Nov 2009
Avastin (bevacizumab) is an anti-VEGF medication which is used to treat cancer. Retinal specialists began using Avastin when clinical trials were being done on Lucentis, because the two drugs are chemically very similar and the results ...
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View Post: Bevacizumab speeds resolution of vitreous hemorrhage « The Retina Blog
27 Oct 2009 by davidkhorram  
Second, they chose 4-6 weeks as the interval for re-injection of bevacizumab. They based this on two previous papers. One by Jorge et al. which showed that peak regression of NV in diabetic retinopathy occured at 6 weeks, and that by 12 ...
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View Post: Treatment-naïve patients do better following Avastin injection ...
18 Oct 2009
Patients that have not previously been treated for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with any modality do better following Avastin (bevacizumab) injection than those previously treated. ...
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View Post: long-term results of intravitreal bevacizumab injection for ...
22 Jun 2009 by Miki Sawa, Fumi Gomi, Motokazu Tsujikawa,...  
methods: fifteen eyes of 13 patients (5 men, 8 women; mean age, 59 years; range, 54 to 70 years) treated with 1-mg intravitreal bevacizumab injections were included. the minimum follow-up after the first injection was 12 months. ...
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