PURPOSE Intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide has been advocated to treat exudative diabetic macular edema. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of an intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide as treatment for diffuse diabetic macular edema. METHODS This study was a retrospective, interventional, clinical case series examining 210 eyes of 174 patie...

The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy and safety of topical Tacrolimus ointment with that of Triamcinolone Acetonide ointment on patients suffering from oral lichen planus. A total of sixty patients (53 females and 07 males, means age 48 years; 30 patients per groups) were treated with Tacrolimus, a calcineurin inhibitor immunosuppresor drug and Triamcinolone acetonide for three mont...

Aim: To evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide on the visual acuity of patients with exudative age related macular degeneration, to assess the duration of a possible effect, and to evaluate clinical side effects of the treatment. Methods: The study included 67 patients (71 eyes) who presented with exudative age related macular degeneration of predominantly or total occult t...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin combined with intravitreal triamcinolone (IVTA) in occult choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). DESIGN Single center, nonrandomized interventional case series. METHODS A prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series of 41 eyes of 41 patients ...

BACKGROUND The treatment of knee osteoarthritis with hyaluronic acid or corticosteroid injection has been widely used. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of hyaluronic acid (hylan G-F 20) with triamcinolone acetonide as a single intra-articular injection for knee osteoarthritis. METHODS This study was a prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Participants with...

INTRODUCTION We report the impact of canakinumab, a fully human anti-interleukin-1β monoclonal antibody, on inflammation and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with difficult-to-treat Gouty Arthritis. METHODS In this eight-week, single-blind, double-dummy, dose-ranging study, patients with acute Gouty Arthritis flares who were unresponsive or intolerant to--or had contraindica...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success of masking study participants to treatment allocation using sham intravitreal injections. METHODS Eyes were randomized to receive sham injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus deferred laser, or intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injections plus prompt laser up to every 16 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of adjunctive intravitreal triamcinolone (IVTA) on intraocular pressure (IOP) in the setting of combined vitrectomy with phacoemulsification. DESIGN Retrospective case series. PARTICIPANTS One hundred thirty-one consecutive eyes undergoing nonemergent vitrectomy with phacoemulsification and IVTA were reviewed and included in the analysis. All 131 eyes receiv...

purpose: to evaluate the influence of different confounding factors on the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection for refractory diabetic macular edema. methods: in a prospective placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial, 88 eyes with refractory diabetic macular edema were randomly assigned into two groups including 45 in the treatment group (4 mg intravitreal triamcinolone...

PURPOSE To evaluate the role of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in patients who developed severe, visually compromising radiation maculopathy or progressed despite anti-angiogenic treatments. METHODS An Institutional Review Board approved, consecutive, retrospective study from 2006 to 2009 of patients who developed severe, visually compromising radiation retinopathy manifesting as macula...