Intravitreal bevacizumab in diabetic retinopathy. Recommendations from the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES): The 2016 knobloch lecture


Por: Arevalo J.F., Liu T.Y.A., Wu L., Lasave A.F., Farah M., Maia M., Penha F.M., Rodrigues E.B., Morales-Canton V., Fromow-Guerra J., Guerrero-Naranjo J.L., Dalma-Weiszhausz J., Velez-Montoya R., Quiroz-Mercado H., Rodriguez F.J., Gomez F.E., Brieke A.C., Goveto A., Berrocal M.H., Cruz-Villegas V., Graue-Wiechers F., Lozano-Rechy D., Fulda-Graue E., Roca J.A., Hernández A., Saravia M.J., Schlaen A., Rojas J., Ingolotti M., Avila M., Carla L., Cardillo J., Jorge R., Carpentier C., Verdaguer J., Verdaguer J.I., Sepúlveda G., Alezzandrini A., Garcia B., Zas M., Gallego-Pinazo R., Diaz-Llopis M., Dolz-Marco R., Figueroa M., Contreras I., Ruiz-Casas D., Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES)

Publicada: 1 ene 2018
Resumen:
The advent of intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) medications has revolutionized the treatment of diabetic eye diseases. Herein, we report the outcomes of clinical studies carried out by the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES), with a specific focus on the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab in the management of diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy. We will also discuss the use of intravitreal bevaci-zumab as a preoperative, adjuvant therapy before vitrectomy for prolif-erative diabetic retinopathy. Copyright © 2017 by Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.

Filiaciones:
Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States
Asociados de Macula, Vitreo y Retina de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Clinica Oftalmologica Centro Caracas, Arevalo-Coutinho Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Caracas, Venezuela
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Oftalmologia, Instituto da Visão, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México, Mexico City, Mexico
Fundación Oftalmológica Nacional, Universidad Del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Fundacion Conde Valenciana, Mexico City, Mexico
Clínica Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Departamento de Oftalmologia, Goiânia, Brazil
Hospital de Olhos de Araraquara, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fundacion Oftalmologica Los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
OFTALMOS, Catedra de Oftalmologia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hospital la Fe, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Departamento de Retina, VISSUM Madrid, Madrid, Spain
ISSN: 21620989
Editorial
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Estados Unidos America
Tipo de documento: Review
Volumen: 7 Número: 1
Páginas: 36-39
WOS Id: 000428124300006
ID de PubMed: 29280367

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