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Inventi Impact: Ophthalmology

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  • Inventi:hvs/14088/14
    Intravitreal Bevacizumab Alone or Combined with Macular Laser Photocoagulation for Recurrent or Persistent Macular Edema Secondary to Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2014 : October - December
    Takafumi Hirashima, Tomoyuki Chihara, Toshitaka Bun, Takao Utsumi, Miou Hirose, Hideyasu Oh

    Background. To evaluate the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injection with or without macular laser photocoagulation\n(MLP) for recurrent or persistent macular edema (ME) secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). Methods. Thirty-four\neyes underwent IVB injection for ME secondary to BRVO as a primary treatment. Twenty of the 34 eyes experienced recurrent\nor persistent ME after the first IVB. Nine of the 20 eyes (Group 1) were retreated with IVB combined with MLP.The remaining 11\neyes (Group 2) were retreated with IVB alone. Results. In Group 1, the postoperative best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) improved\ncompared with the preoperative value at all follow-up visits, although no statistically significant improvement was observed at 6\nmonths. In contrast, BCVA significantly improved from 0.53 to 0.40 at 6 months (P < 0.05) in Group 2. Conclusion. Combined\ntherapy tended to have a smaller effect on visual acuity compared with IVB monotherapy.

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    CC Compliant Citation: Takafumi Hirashima, Tomoyuki Chihara, Toshitaka Bun, Takao Utsumi, Miou Hirose, and Hideyasu Oh, â??Intravitreal Bevacizumab Alone or Combined with Macular Laser Photocoagulation for Recurrent or Persistent Macular Edema Secondary to Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion,â? Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 2014, Article ID 173084, 5 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/173084. Copyright © 2014 Takafumi Hirashima et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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