Treat & extend versus PRN in AMD

Combined Therapies to Treat CNV in AMD: PDT + Anti-VEGF

Treat and Extend Versus Treat and Observe Regimens in Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration Patients Treated with Ranibizumab: 3-year Surveillance Period

Copyright: © 2014 Calvo P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Treat and Extend Versus Treat and Observe Regimens in Wet Agerelated Macular Degeneration Patients Treated with Ranibizumab: 3-...

Audit: Prescribing PRN medication.

BACKGROUND PRN prescriptions enablehealthcare staff to respond quickly to the urgent clinical needs of the user without having to contact the responsible clinician (RC). One problem, established amongst most institutions by NICE regarding the use of PRN, is that most of these institutions struggle to keep an updated or full record on the PRN medications. Thus, the aim of this audit was to check...

Treating morning sickness PRN?

QUESTION I received a telephone call from my sister who lives in the United States. She is experiencing moderate symptoms of morning sickness, but she tells me that she was advised to treat her symptoms only pro re nata- meaning, when symptoms re-emerge. Does this make sense? ANSWER No, it does not. Typically, nausea and vomiting of pregnancy continue for weeks and months, and in some cases u...

Systemic vascular safety of ranibizumab for age-related macular degeneration: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.

BACKGROUND We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized trials of ranibizumab for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to elucidate systemic vascular risk. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Although intravitreal vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors are widely used to treat AMD, whether they produce systemic adverse effects remains uncertain. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Centr...