VIDEO: Study identifies early treatment patterns, responses for faricimab in wet AMD, DME
1 month ago - By Healio
KOLOA, Hawaii - In this Healio Video Perspective from Retina 2023, Ferhina S. Ali, MD, MPH, discusses the early use of faricimab for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema.
“In terms of vision response, we saw that, for those who were treatment naive, they had steady improvement in their vision over the course of their injections,” she said. “For those who had been prior treated with good vision, they maintained stable vision over the course of their treatments.”
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