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SUBMITTER: Blanquez-Martinez D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8620862 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blánquez-Martínez David D Díaz-Villamarín Xando X Antúnez-Rodríguez Alba A Pozo-Agundo Ana A Muñoz-Ávila José Ignacio JI Martínez-González Luis Javier LJ Dávila-Fajardo Cristina Lucía CL
Pharmaceutics 20211120 11
High myopia is an ophthalmic pathology that affects half of the young adults in the United States and Europe and it is predicted that a third of the world's population could be nearsighted at the end of this decade. It is characterized by at least 6 diopters or axial length > 26 mm and, choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in 5 to 11% of cases. Ranibizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody fragment. It is an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) drug used in the treatmen ...[more]