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  • Outcomes of a 2-year treat-...
    Hirano, Takao; Toriyama, Yuichi; Takamura, Yoshihiro; Sugimoto, Masahiko; Nagaoka, Taiji; Sugiura, Yoshimi; Okamoto, Fumiki; Saito, Michiyuki; Noda, Kousuke; Yoshida, Shigeo; Ishibazawa, Akihiro; Sawada, Osamu; Murata, Toshinori

    Scientific reports, 02/2021, Letnik: 11, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    This prospective, open-label, single-arm, non-randomized clinical trial, assessed the efficacy of a 2-year treat-and-extend (T&E) regimen involving intravitreal aflibercept injection (IAI), with the longest treatment interval set to 16 weeks, and adjunct focal/grid laser in diabetic macula edema (DME) patients. We examined 40 eyes (40 adults) with fovea-involving DME from 8 Japanese centers between April 2015 and February 2017. Participants received IAI with an induction period featuring monthly injections and a subsequent T&E period featuring 8-16-week injection interval, adjusted based on optical coherence tomography findings. The primary endpoints were mean changes in the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central subfield macular thickness (CST) from baseline. Thirty patients (75%) completed the 2-year follow-up. The mean BCVA and CST changed from 60.5 ± 15.6 letters and 499.2 ± 105.6 µm at baseline to 66.6 ± 17.1 letters (P = 0.217) and 315.2 ± 79.0 µm (P < 0.001), respectively, after 2 years. The treatment interval was extended to 12 and 16 weeks in 6.7% and 66.7% of patients, respectively, at the end of 2 years. The T&E aflibercept regimen with the longest treatment interval set to 16 weeks, with adjunct focal/grid laser may be a rational 2-year treatment strategy for DME.