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Repeated intravitreal injections of antivascular endothelial growth factor in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration may increase the risk of ischemic optic neuropathy
2019-12-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Previous case reports have demonstrated the occurrence of ischemic optic neuropathy (ION) following intravitreal injections of antivascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF). However, no previous studies have investigated the impact of injection numbers on the risk of ION. The aim of our study was to investigate whether repeated intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF would...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4988c922-b1c4-5192-bf19-c973ebabface
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.1753/v2
