Anti-VEGF injections may play increasing role in treatment of diabetic retinopathy

Patients with diabetic macular edema and moderately severe to severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, as determined on the ETDRS Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale, greatly benefit from intravitreal anti-VEGF injection with ranibizumab, with more robust results than in patients with less or more severe diabetic retinopathy, according to a study.
“If untreated, these patients have a substantial risk of progressing to PDR,” Charles C. Wykoff, MD, told Ocular Surgery News.
The study was a post hoc analysis of the phase 3 RIDE and RISE clinical trials, in which the safety and

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