The goal of this retrospective single-center chart review is to establish the response rate, efficacy and safety of a single dose of intravitreal faricimab injection in real-world patients with aflibercept- and ranibizumab-resistant neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
13
The Injections were performed according to local standard protocol, that included the use of 2-3 drops of topical tetracaine anesthesia, use of eye speculum, topical 5% povidone-iodine disinfection, a 30G-needle, injection site 3.5 mm posterior from the limbus marked by calipers in supertemporal or inferotemporal quadrants, a sterile cotton tip tamponade at the site of injection after removal of the needle, and no post-procedure antibiotics.
Miklos Schneider
Glostrup Municipality, Denmark
Proportion of patients responding to the treatment switch
Defined as reduction or disappearance of the intra- or subretinal fluid at 4 weeks following a single injection of faricimab
Time frame: 4 weeks
Differences in patient characteristics between individuals responding and not responding to faricimab
Time frame: 4 weeks
Changes in central retinal thickness after the treatment switch
Measured on optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans
Time frame: 4 weeks
Changes in pigment epithelium detachment (PED) height after the treatment switch
Measured on optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans
Time frame: 4 weeks
Changes in best-corrected visual acuity after the treatment switch
Time frame: 4 weeks
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