RESEARCH ARTICLE


Macular Hole Formation After Intravitreal Ranibizumab Injection in Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration



Chandoshi Mukherjee*, Arijit Mitra, N. Ajith Kumar, Samer Elsherbiny, Peck Lin Lip
The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital Dudley Road Birmingham, West Midlands B18 7QH, UK


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Abstract

Ranibizumab is a monoclonal antibody fragment that inhibits angiogenesis by inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor A, used as a treatment for patients with wet aged-related macular degeneration (ARMD). Adverse effects from intravitreal Ranibizumab injections are well recognised. Macular hole formation following Ranibizumab injection is a complication that has been recently reported in few case reports. We present a larger case series of five patients, who developed full thickness macular holes (FTMH) after intravitreal Ranibizumab injections for treatment of wet ARMD that we were aware of between 2009 and 2013.

Keywords: Full thickness macular hole, intravitreal ranibizumab injection, pigment epithelial detachment, posterior vitreous traction, wet age-related macular degeneration.