Fu, Dun Jack;
Hanumunthadu, Daren;
Keenan, Tiarnan DL;
Wagner, Siegfried;
Balsakas, Konstantinos;
Keane, Pearse A;
Patel, Praveen J;
(2023)
Characterising treatment outcomes of patients achieving quarterly aflibercept dosing for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: real-world clinical outcomes from a large tertiary care centre.
Eye
, 37
pp. 779-784.
10.1038/s41433-022-02220-1.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the proportion of patients achieving a 12-week (q12) aflibercept dosing interval in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective, comparative, non-randomised electronic medical record (EMR) database study of the Moorfields database of treatment-naïve nAMD eyes. Extraction criteria included at least 7 aflibercept injections in first year of treatment, AMD in the diagnosis field of EMR, and minimum of 1 year follow-up data. RESULTS: There were 2416 eyes of 2163 patients started on anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) between 01-11-2013 & 14-02-2020 who had received at least 7 aflibercept intravitreal injections (electronic database accessed March 2021). Of these, 1674 (68%) eyes of 1537 patients had at least one q12 dosing interval (>=84 and < =98 days between injections) during the first 2 years of treatment. This included 926 (61.8%) female patients and 856 (right eyes age at 1st injection), 936 (62.4%) Caucasian, and 32 (2.1%) Afro-Caribbean patients. The median time to the first q12 injection (95% confidence interval) was 1.76 years (1.70-1.86) with mean (±SD) of 11.8 (±6.0) injections. Visual acuity (ETDRS letters) of the eyes without q12 injection and eyes with a q12 injection was 57.9 ± 14.7 and 56.7 ± 14.8 respectively at baseline, 61.4 ± 18.1 and 63.0 ± 15.9 respectively at 12 months and 61.2 ± 20.1 and 61.1 ± 17.8 respectively at 24 months. CONCLUSION: 68% of eyes were able to achieve a q12 injection dose within the first 2 years of treatment. Eyes achieving a q12 injection in the first 2 years achieved a similar visual acuity outcome at both 1 and 2-year follow-up to those unable to do so, with a fewer number of total injections.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Characterising treatment outcomes of patients achieving quarterly aflibercept dosing for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: real-world clinical outcomes from a large tertiary care centre |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41433-022-02220-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-022-02220-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Macular degeneration, Predictive markers |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155905 |
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