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OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 122, Issue 2, Pages 375-381Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.08.047
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- iCo Therapeutics
- Jaeb Center
- Bayer
- Genentech, Inc.
- Novartis Pharma AG
- Regeneron
- Emmes Corporation through the Office of Research Administration of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Aerpio
- DRCR Network
- Jaeb Center for Health Research, Inc.
- Novartis
- National Eye Institute
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services [EY14231, EY14229, EY18817, EY023207]
- National Institutes of Health
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Objective: To report 5-year results from a previously reported trial evaluating intravitreal 0.5 mg ranibizumab with prompt versus deferred (for >= 24 weeks) focal/grid laser treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME). Design: Multicenter, randomized clinical trial. Participants: Among participants from the trial with 3 years of follow-up who subsequently consented to a 2-year extension and survived through 5 years, 124 (97%) and 111 (92%) completed the 5-year visit in the prompt and deferred groups, respectively. Methods: Random assignment to ranibizumab every 4 weeks until no longer improving (with resumption if worsening) and prompt or deferred (>= 24 weeks) focal/grid laser treatment. Main Outcome Measures: Best-corrected visual acuity at the 5-year visit. Results: The mean change in visual acuity letter score from baseline to the 5-year visit was +7.2 letters in the prompt laser group compared with +9.8 letters in the deferred laser group (mean difference, -2.6 letters; 95% confidence interval, -5.5 to +0.4 letters; P = 0.09). At the 5-year visit in the prompt versus deferred laser groups, there was vision loss of >= 10 letters in 9% versus 8%, an improvement of >= 10 letters in 46% versus 58%, and an improvement of >= 15 letters in 27% versus 38% of participants, respectively. From baseline to 5 years, 56% of participants in the deferred group did not receive laser. The median number of injections was 13 versus 17 in the prompt and deferral groups, including 54% and 45% receiving no injections during year 4 and 62% and 52% receiving no injections during year 5, respectively. Conclusions: Five-year results suggest focal/grid laser treatment at the initiation of intravitreal ranibizumab is no better than deferring laser treatment for >= 24 weeks in eyes with DME involving the central macula with vision impairment. Although more than half of eyes in which laser treatment is deferred may avoid laser for at least 5 years, such eyes may require more injections to achieve these results when following this protocol. Most eyes treated with ranibizumab and either prompt or deferred laser maintain vision gains obtained by the first year through 5 years with little additional treatment after 3 years. (C) 2015 by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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