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Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab

We report a case of a patient with age-related macular degeneration, who had undergone trabeculectomy nine years earlier, and developed severe hypotony and bleb leak after treatment with intravitreal injections of ranibizumab. Although the incident is rare, in patients with longstanding filtering bl...

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Autores principales: Georgalas, Ilias, Papaconstantinou, Dimitris, Tservakis, Ioannis, Koutsandrea, Chrysanthi, Ladas, Ioannis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19436608
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author Georgalas, Ilias
Papaconstantinou, Dimitris
Tservakis, Ioannis
Koutsandrea, Chrysanthi
Ladas, Ioannis
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Papaconstantinou, Dimitris
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description We report a case of a patient with age-related macular degeneration, who had undergone trabeculectomy nine years earlier, and developed severe hypotony and bleb leak after treatment with intravitreal injections of ranibizumab. Although the incident is rare, in patients with longstanding filtering blebs, who need treatment with antivascular endothelial growth factors, close follow-up may be advocated, since the occurrence of bleb rupture could lead to permanent vision loss.
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spelling pubmed-26975102009-06-17 Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab Georgalas, Ilias Papaconstantinou, Dimitris Tservakis, Ioannis Koutsandrea, Chrysanthi Ladas, Ioannis Ther Clin Risk Manag Case Report We report a case of a patient with age-related macular degeneration, who had undergone trabeculectomy nine years earlier, and developed severe hypotony and bleb leak after treatment with intravitreal injections of ranibizumab. Although the incident is rare, in patients with longstanding filtering blebs, who need treatment with antivascular endothelial growth factors, close follow-up may be advocated, since the occurrence of bleb rupture could lead to permanent vision loss. Dove Medical Press 2009 2009-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2697510/ /pubmed/19436608 Text en © 2009 Georgalas et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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Georgalas, Ilias
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Tservakis, Ioannis
Koutsandrea, Chrysanthi
Ladas, Ioannis
Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title_full Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title_fullStr Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title_full_unstemmed Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title_short Severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
title_sort severe hypotony and filtering bleb leak after intravitreal injection of ranibizumab
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19436608
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