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By Susan Dounce, PhD

二月 20, 2019

Neovascular diseases of the eye are often chronic conditions treated with repeated intravitreal anti-VEGF injections. Although anti-VEGF therapies are preventing blindness, there are unique risks to intravitreal drug delivery that are exacerbated by the injection frequency. In particular, there is clinical evidence to suggest that some complications of these injections, though rare, might be tied to injection of particulate matter such as silicone oil, protein aggregates and foreign particulates.1,2