Silicone Droplets After Avastin Injection

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    • By Kamal Kishore, MD, MBBS
      Illinois Retina and Eye Associates
      Co-author(s): Kamal Kishore, MD, Illinois Retina and Eye Associates, Peoria, IL
    • Uploaded on Jan 25, 2017.
    • Last modified by Caroline Bozell on Jan 26, 2017.
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    silicone oil
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    Brian Chenoweth, CRA, Illinois Retina and Eye Associates
    Description
    A 74-year-old female complained of seeing a round shadow at the bottom of her field of vision starting soon after intravitreal bevacizumab injection for neovascular macular degeneration. Fundus photograph showed a silicone oil droplet at the top of the photograph (arrow). Bevacizumab was prepared by a compounding pharmacy and was shipped in a BD insulin syringe with an attached 31-g needle. She had previously received 19 intravitreal avastin injections over the past two years without any problems.

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