Active Ingredient: Dexamethasone
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Intravitreal
700 - 700 ug
From 700 To 700 ug once every day for 1 day(s)
The recommended dose is one implant of 700 μg dexamethasone to be administered intra-vitreally to the affected eye. Administration to both eyes concurrently is not recommended.
Repeat doses should be considered when a patient experiences a response to treatment followed subsequently by a loss in visual acuity and in the physician’s opinion may benefit from retreatment without being exposed to significant risk.
Patients who experience and retain improved vision should not be retreated. Patients who experience deterioration in vision, which is not slowed by dexamethasone, should not be retreated.
There is only very limited information on repeat dosing intervals less than 6 months.
For information concerning the current safety experience of repeat administrations beyond 2 implants in posterior segment non-infectious uveitis and Retinal Vein Occlusion.
Patients should be monitored following the injection to permit early treatment if an infection or increased intraocular pressure occurs.
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