Effectiveness and safety of fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant in diabetic macular edema patients considered insufficiently responsive to available therapies (REACT) : a prospective, non-randomized, and multicenter study

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness and safety of the intravitreal fluocinolone-acetonide implant (FAc-i) in patients with chronic diabetic macular edema who did not sufficiently respond to other available therapies.

METHODS: This was a multicenter, prospective, non-randomized, and phase-IV observational study conducted on patients with recurrent-DME who were insufficient responders to currently available therapies (REACT-Study). The primary end-point was the mean change in best-corrected-visual-acuity from baseline to month-24 values.

RESULTS: Thirty-one eyes from 31 patients were included in the study. Mean age was 68.0 ± 7.7 years, and 10 (32.3%) were women. Study patients had received 5.3 ± 7.3 previous DME treatments before starting the study. In the overall study sample, BCVA improved from 56.1 ± 12.3 letters at baseline to 62.4 ± 17.0 letters at month-24 (p = 0.0510). The eyes with a baseline BCVA < 70 ETDRS letters had a significant improvement in BCVA from 53.2 ± 10.2 letters at baseline to 61.5 ± 17.9 letters at month-24 (p = 0.0165). In the overall study population, central-subfoveal-thickness (CST) was significantly reduced from 474.0 ± 135.1 µm at baseline to 333.4 ± 135.6 at month-24 (p < 0.0001). Similarly, macular-volume (MV) was significantly reduced from 10.7 ± 2.7 mm3 at baseline to 9.6 ± 2.9 mm3 (p = 0.0027) at month-24. Among the 31 study eyes, 19 (61.3%) required an additional treatment for DME. Throughout the study, 9 (29.0%) eyes required ocular hypotensive medication for controlling their intraocular-pressure and 5 (16.1%) eyes underwent cataract surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: In DME eyes who did not sufficiently respond to previous therapies, the FAc-i was associated with an improvement in visual and anatomic outcomes. There were no unexpected adverse-events.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: EudraCT identifier: 2016-001680-37.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

International ophthalmology - 43(2023), 12 vom: 26. Dez., Seite 4639-4649

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ruiz-Moreno, José María [VerfasserIn]
Adán, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
Lafuente, María [VerfasserIn]
Asencio Durán, Mónica [VerfasserIn]
Arias Barquet, Luís [VerfasserIn]
García Layana, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
Araiz Iribarren, Javier [VerfasserIn]

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Corticoids
Diabetic macular edema
Drug Implants
Fluocinolone Acetonide
Fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant
Glucocorticoids
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Observational Study
VEGF inhibitors

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 18.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10792-023-02864-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361944802