Abstract
Intravitreal injection was reported by Ohm in 1911 as a technique to introduce air for retinal tamponade and repair of retinal detachment [28]. Intravitreal administration of pharmacotherapies dates to the mid-1940s with the use of penicillin to treat endophthalmitis [34, 35]. Since that time, use of the intravitreal injection technique has steadily increased, with its usage being focused primarily on the treatment of retinal detachment [7, 32], endophthalmitis [8, 31], and cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis [13, 43]. The increasing confidence in the efficacy and safety of intravitreal injections, in conjunction with the development of additional pharmacotherapies, has led to a recent rapid increase in the use of this technique for the administration of various pharmacotherapies (e.g., ranibizumab [6], pegaptanib sodium [9, 41, 42]) for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and intravitreal triamcinolone for macular edema associated with a variety of etiologies, such as diabetic retinopathy [21], central retinal vein occlusion [10, 36], branch retinal vein occlusion [5, 17, 30, 37], uveitis [2, 44], and birdshot retinochoroidopathy [22].
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Retinal Vascular Disease |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Pages | 283-288 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783540295419 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2007 |
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Intravitreal injections : Guidelines to minimize the risk of endophthalmitis. / Scott, Ingrid; Flynn, Harry W.
Retinal Vascular Disease. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. p. 283-288.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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N2 - Intravitreal injection was reported by Ohm in 1911 as a technique to introduce air for retinal tamponade and repair of retinal detachment [28]. Intravitreal administration of pharmacotherapies dates to the mid-1940s with the use of penicillin to treat endophthalmitis [34, 35]. Since that time, use of the intravitreal injection technique has steadily increased, with its usage being focused primarily on the treatment of retinal detachment [7, 32], endophthalmitis [8, 31], and cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis [13, 43]. The increasing confidence in the efficacy and safety of intravitreal injections, in conjunction with the development of additional pharmacotherapies, has led to a recent rapid increase in the use of this technique for the administration of various pharmacotherapies (e.g., ranibizumab [6], pegaptanib sodium [9, 41, 42]) for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and intravitreal triamcinolone for macular edema associated with a variety of etiologies, such as diabetic retinopathy [21], central retinal vein occlusion [10, 36], branch retinal vein occlusion [5, 17, 30, 37], uveitis [2, 44], and birdshot retinochoroidopathy [22].
AB - Intravitreal injection was reported by Ohm in 1911 as a technique to introduce air for retinal tamponade and repair of retinal detachment [28]. Intravitreal administration of pharmacotherapies dates to the mid-1940s with the use of penicillin to treat endophthalmitis [34, 35]. Since that time, use of the intravitreal injection technique has steadily increased, with its usage being focused primarily on the treatment of retinal detachment [7, 32], endophthalmitis [8, 31], and cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis [13, 43]. The increasing confidence in the efficacy and safety of intravitreal injections, in conjunction with the development of additional pharmacotherapies, has led to a recent rapid increase in the use of this technique for the administration of various pharmacotherapies (e.g., ranibizumab [6], pegaptanib sodium [9, 41, 42]) for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and intravitreal triamcinolone for macular edema associated with a variety of etiologies, such as diabetic retinopathy [21], central retinal vein occlusion [10, 36], branch retinal vein occlusion [5, 17, 30, 37], uveitis [2, 44], and birdshot retinochoroidopathy [22].
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