Effect of the Adjunctive IVB Before PRP

Summary

This study is to investigate the effect of adjunctive intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) before panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) compared with only PRP on central macular thickness and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in patients with severe diabetic retinopathy without macular edema.

Timeline

Start

2011-08

Primary completion

2012-08

Completion

2013-08

Publications

• Background Jo YJ, Heo DW, Shin YI, Kim JY. Diurnal variation of retina thickness measured with time domain and spectral domain optical coherence tomography in healthy subjects. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Aug 17;52(9):6497-500. doi: 10.1167/iovs.11-7403.

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