My mother is 58 years old and she is high BP patient and under allopathy treatment by senior physician.
For last 1 year she is having eye problem in left eye. All the images from left eye is not properly visible. I went to retina Specialist doctor he suggested for OCT and after watching it dr diagnosed it as B.R.V.O . Dr said the treatment is only taking injection in eye and prescribed " ANTI VEG F" and said for atleast 3 injection once in month for 3 months regularly. I said him will injection benefit my mother, he said I can't say with confidence.
(Cost of 1 injection is 17,000).
I then went for suggestion with Two senior eye specialist (both having experience of more than 40 years as eye specialist') . They said taking injection will benefit patient is not certain. They said chances of positive results after taking injection is very less.
What should I do pls suggest?
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What your retina specialist has diagnosed and advised is right. Treatment of choice forBRVO with macular edema is anti- vegf only, Before anti-vegf era, it was only observed for spontaneous resolution and focal laser was done...even then visual gain was not guaranteed. Anti- VEGF are very effective in reducing edema and hence improving vision. However, visual gain can not be predicted, which depends upon duration of brvo & severity of ischemia. Rest Patients need to decide, with injection there is possibility of visual gain which is there in most of cases and with no injection wait for natural recovery and further complications which are not predictable.
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It the Oct shows fluid (macular edema) then the treatment is definitely going in for the Anti Vegf injection.
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