Mortality associated with bevacizumab intravitreal injections in age-related macular degeneration patients after acute myocardial infarct: A retrospective population-based survival analysis
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Feb 18, 2018
Hanhart J, et al. - Researchers evaluated the mortality related to the intravitreal injections of bevacizumab for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in cases previously diagnosed with acute myocardial infarct (MI). Findings demonstrated an association of increased mortality with the use of intravitreal bevacizumab in AMD patients after MI, compared to age- and gender-matched post-MI patients with no exposure to any anti-VEGF agent. While offering bevacizumab to AMD patients following MI, caution was recommended.
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