Acute retinal pigment epithelial tear following intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) injection for occult choroidal neovascularisation secondary to age related macular degeneration
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 90 (9), 1207-1208
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.2006.093732
Abstract
The first case was a 64 year old man with an occult CNV with a PED in the right eye (fig 1A–C). His visual acuity (VA) gradually declined from 20/30 to 20/60. Four days after an uneventful IV injection of 0.05 ml Avastin, the patient noted a sudden drop in VA. His VA was 20/80 while fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography revealed a large RPE tear (fig 2A–C). The second case was a 84 year old woman with an occult CNV with a PED. Her VA was 20/60 when she required an IV Avastin injection. When …Keywords
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