SAN FRANCISCO — Patients with wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema who received viscous topical anesthetics before anti-VEGF injections were at increased risk for development of endophthalmitis, according to a speaker.
“The use of lidocaine gel elevated the risk of endophthalmitis by 11 times. The use of tetracaine hypromellose drops increased the risks by four times. All other variables studied were not independent predictors of endophthalmitis,” Tarek S. Hassan, MD, said at Retina Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual
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