When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Intravitreal injection - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravitreal_injection

   Intravitreal injection is the method of administration of drugs into the eye by injection with a fine needle. The medication will be directly applied into the vitreous humor . [ 1 ] It is used to treat various eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) , diabetic retinopathy , and infections inside the eye such as ...

3. Ranibizumab - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranibizumab

   Ranibizumab, sold under the brand name Lucentis among others, is a monoclonal antibody fragment created from the same parent mouse antibody as bevacizumab.It is an anti-angiogenic [16] that is approved to treat the "wet" type of age-related macular degeneration (AMD, also ARMD), diabetic retinopathy, and macular edema due to branch retinal vein occlusion or central retinal vein occlusion.

4. Bevacizumab - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab

   Bevacizumab, sold under the brand name Avastin among others, is a monoclonal antibody medication used to treat a number of types of cancers and a specific eye disease. [30] [28] For cancer, it is given by slow injection into a vein (intravenous) and used for colon cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, glioblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and renal-cell carcinoma. [31]

5. Diabetic retinopathy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_retinopathy

   Diabetic retinopathy (also known as diabetic eye disease) is a medical condition in which damage occurs to the retina due to diabetes.It is a leading cause of blindness in developed countries and one of the lead causes of sight loss in the world, even though there are many new therapies and improved treatments for helping people live with diabetes.

6. Intravitreal administration - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravitreal_administration

   The number of injections tripled to 15,000 in 2002 when triamcinolone injections were first used to treat diabetic macular oedema. [2] [3] This use continued to drive an increase to 83,000 injections in 2004. [2] In 2005 bevacizumab and ranibizumab intravitreal injections for the treatment of wet-AMD caused a rise in injections to 252,000. [2]

7. Macular degeneration - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macular_degeneration

   [71] [77] All three drugs are administered via intravitreal injection, meaning they are injected directly into the eye. Bevacizumab is another VEGF inhibitor that has been shown to have similar efficacy and safety as the previous two drugs, however, is not currently indicated for AMD. [70]