background: cystoid macular edema (cme) is one of the most common and sight threatening complications of uveitis. intravitreal injection of corticosteroids and anti-vegf antibody are two routine options for treatment. objective: to compare the effects of intravitreal injections of bevacizumab and triamcinolone acetonide for the treatment of persistent macular edema in non-infectious uveitis. me...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of intravitreal bevacizumab (ivb) injection on sustained intraocular pressure (iop) methods: this non-randomized prospective study was conducted on 359 eyes of 359 patients in amir almomenin (rasht) and labbafinejad (tehran) hospitals. after history taking and complete ocular examination, iop was measured one week and one day before injection (twice at each sessi...

we report a 64-year-old diabetic woman who developed neovascularization of the posterior capsule 2 years after cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. the patient was treated with single injection of 1.25 mg of intravitreal bevacizumab (avastin) via pars plana. after one week, complete regression of the posterior capsule neovascularization was achieved allowing us to perform nd: yag...

purpose: to report an idiopathic retinal vasculitis, aneurysm, neuroretinitis (irvan) case treated with one session of panretinal photocoagulation (prp) and intravitreal bevacizumab (avastin) case report: a 13-year-old boy was diagnosed as an irvan syndrome. systemic examination, fundus angiography, brain mri were performed to evaluate the patient. treatment with one session of prp, retinopexy ...

Background and Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is one of the common complications of diabetes which significantly accounts for preventable visual impairment and blindness. Central macular thickness (CMT) is a feature found in DME patients. This study aims to determine the relationship between optical coherence tomography (OCT)-measured CMT and visual acuity (VA) in patients with DME bef...

purpose : to review the effectiveness and safety of perioperative injection of bevacizumab in vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (pdr) methods : a literature search of all english articles from the medline and scopus databases was performed. original articles, case reports and letters were included. results : nineteen, 3 and 5 studies reported preoperative, intraoperative and pos...

to evaluate corneal endothelial cell changes after intravitreal and subconjunctival injection of avastin (bevacizumab) based on specular microscopic findings.  this prospective interventional study was performed on 82 eyes of 82 patients. forty-two cases with ptrygia received a subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab (2.5mg/0.2ml) and 40 diabetic subjects with retinal neovascularization or mac...

purpose : to evaluate the toxic retinal effects of intravitreal bevacizumab used for the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (amd) using ganzfeld electroretinography (g-erg) methods : in this prospective comparative interventional study, 23 patients with active choroidal neovascularization (cnv) associated with amd were enrolled. patients were received intravitreal injection...

dear editor:   bevacizumab is monoclonal antibody approved by the us fda for metastatic colorectal cancer.1 off-label intravitreal bevacizumab is gaining popularity among ophthalmologists worldwide, due to its reported efficacy. we are using intravitreal injections of bevacizumab prepared in single dosage form (while maintaining sterility) for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization, prol...