Intravitreal ranibizumab as primary treatment for neovascular membrane associated with angioid streaks
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[Subretinal neovascular membrane in angioid streaks treated with intravitreal bevacizumab].
INTRODUCTION Angioid streaks are breaks in Bruch's membrane that may be associated, among others, with pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Its most common complication is the development of subretinal neovascular membranes (SRNVM) and the decreased vision this entails. CASE REPORT A 28 year old woman with angioid streaks and SRNVM in the left eye, who received 3 injections of intravitreal bevacizumab, ...
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CLINICAL CASE A patient had bilateral angioid streaks complicated by cicatricial degeneration in the left eye and subfoveal choroidal neovascularization in the right eye. Photodynamic therapy resulted in a favorable response with normalization of the visual acuity and angiographic resolution of the lesions. DISCUSSION The most serious complication of angioid streaks is choroidal neovasculariz...
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PURPOSE To determine the pattern of electroretinographic change after an intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis(®)) injection for the treatment of choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM). PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective interventional case series of patients treated by intravitreal ranibizumab injection. Best corrected visual acuity, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and multifocal electroreti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1755-375X,1755-3768
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01754.x