PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (Avastin((R))) as a treatment option for radiation maculopathy secondary to proton beam radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma. CASE A 61-year-old woman presented with a gradual decrease in left eye visual acuity (VA) 29 months after proton beam radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma. On presentation, her best-cor...

Not just drug manufacturers, but patient advocacy groups too, are pushing the FDA to ease its prohibitions on the dissemination of off-label medication (and medical device) information. The situation with regard to Genentech’s Avastin and Lucentis (bevacizumab) is just one reason why. Lucentis is indicated for the treatment of the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and Avastin ...

R anibizumab (Lucentis) and bevacizumab (Avastin) are both commonly used to treat wet age related macular degeneration (AMD) in the United Kingdom. Many primary care trusts, which pay for treatments in England, see little difference between them, other than the price: ranibizumab costs around 12 times more than bevacizumab. But Novartis insists there are subtle and important differences between...

The FDA has revoked approval of the breast cancer indication for bevacizumab (Avastin; Genetech), saying that studies have not shown enough of a benefit to outweigh the drug's serious and potentially life-threatening side effects.

purpose : to review the effectiveness and safety of perioperative injection of bevacizumab in vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (pdr) methods : a literature search of all english articles from the medline and scopus databases was performed. original articles, case reports and letters were included. results : nineteen, 3 and 5 studies reported preoperative, intraoperative and pos...

Aim: Several ocular and systemic complications have been reported after the bevacizumab intravitreal injection. This study aims at reporting the main indications for the bevacizumab intravitreal injection in our center, the intravitreal injection method in this study, and the incidence of the post-injection complication, such as endophthalmitis.Methods: This study is a retrospective review of t...

approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2004 and the European Medicines Agency in January 2005 for use in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). In a phase III clinical trial it was shown to improve survival and progression-free survival and an increased response rate as compared to a chemotherapy (IFL) regimen containing bolus fluorouracil (5-FU), leucovorin (LV), and irino...

A 45-year-old female developed neurological symptoms and elevated diastolic blood pressure while on bevacizumab (Avastin) and gemcitabine for recurrent carboplatin-resistant high-grade serous ovarian cancer. A brain MRI diagnosed our patient with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. We are discussing her presenting symptoms in this paper as well as the management and the outcome. We em...

PURPOSE To report the short term anatomic response of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin, Genentech) as salvage treatment in progressive retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a small series of patients. METHODS The study included five eyes of three patients with progressive ROP despite peripheral laser ablation. Patients received intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (Avastin, Genentech). RetCa...