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Retinal Pigment Epithelial Tears After Intravitreal Bevacizumab Injection For Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration., Sunir Garg, Roy Brod, David Kim, R Gary Lane, Joseph Maguire, David Fischer
Retinal Pigment Epithelial Tears After Intravitreal Bevacizumab Injection For Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration., Sunir Garg, Roy Brod, David Kim, R Gary Lane, Joseph Maguire, David Fischer
Wills Eye Hospital Papers
PURPOSE: To determine the incidence of and the risk factors for the development of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) tears after intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) injection for the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
METHODS: A retrospective, multicentre, consecutive interventional case series of all patients with subfoveal exudative AMD treated with intravitreal bevacizumab between August 2005 and April 2007. The main outcome measures were pre- and post-RPE tear visual acuity and choroidal neovascular membrane lesion types, incidence of tears and time from first injection until development of the tear.
RESULTS: A total of 920 eyes with exudative AMD were treated with …