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Who is LUCENTIS for?
LUCENTIS® (ranibizumab injection) is a prescription medicine for the treatment of patients with Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
What important safety information should I know about LUCENTIS?
LUCENTIS is a prescription medication given by injection into the eye, and it has side effects. LUCENTIS is not for everyone. You should not use LUCENTIS if you have an infection in or around the eye or are allergic to LUCENTIS or any of its ingredients.
Some LUCENTIS patients have serious side effects related to the injection. These include serious infections inside the eye, detached retinas, and cataracts. Other uncommon serious side effects include inflammation inside the eye and increased eye pressure. These can make your vision worse. Some patients have increases in eye pressure within 1 hour of an injection. Your eye doctor should check your eye pressure and eye health during the week after your LUCENTIS injection.
Although not common, LUCENTIS patients have had eye- and non–eye-related blood clots (heart attacks, strokes, and death).
If your eye becomes red, sensitive to light, painful, or has a change in vision, you should call or visit your eye doctor right away.
The most common side effects to your eye are increased redness in the whites of your eye, eye pain, small specks in vision, and the feeling that something is in your eye. The most common non–eye-related side effects are nose and throat infections, headache, and respiratory (lung) infections.
LUCENTIS is for prescription use only.
For additional safety information, please talk to your doctor and see the LUCENTIS full prescribing information.
Results With LUCENTIS
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In one 2-year clinical study, 9 out of 10 people receiving LUCENTIS monthly maintained* or improved their vision.
*Defined as losing fewer than 15 letters on the eye chart.
LUCENTIS should not be used in patients who have an infection in or around the eye or are allergic to LUCENTIS or any of its ingredients. Please see additional important safety information below.
Remember, if your vision stays the same or improves, it may mean that you can keep doing many of the simple things that are most important to you.
In clinical studies, a full 2 years after starting treatment, people who received LUCENTIS once a month were able to read 21 more letters on the eye chart, on average, than people who received placebo.
For example, a person with untreated wet AMD may only be able to read a few letters on the eye chart.
In a clinical study, patients who received LUCENTIS monthly were able to read, on average, 21 additional letters on the eye chart compared with people who received placebo.
Serious side effects include inflammation inside the eye, and rarely, problems related to the injection procedure, such as developing a cataract. These can make your vision worse. Please see additional important safety information below.
In clinical studies, up to 4 out of 10 patients saw their visual acuity improve to 20/40 or better after 2 years of monthly LUCENTIS compared with fewer than 1 out of 10 patients treated with placebo.
What does visual acuity mean?
Visual acuity (VA) is the ability to see fine detail clearly. For example:
The most common side effects to your eye are increased redness in the whites of your eye, eye pain, small specks in vision, and the feeling that something is in your eye. The most common non–eye-related side effects are nose and throat infections, headache, and respiratory (lung) infections. Please see additional important safety information below.
Who is LUCENTIS for?
LUCENTIS® (ranibizumab injection) is a prescription medicine for the treatment of patients with Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
What important safety information should I know about LUCENTIS?
LUCENTIS is a prescription medication given by injection into the eye, and it has side effects. LUCENTIS is not for everyone. You should not use LUCENTIS if you have an infection in or around the eye or are allergic to LUCENTIS or any of its ingredients.
Some LUCENTIS patients have serious side effects related to the injection. These include serious infections inside the eye, detached retinas, and cataracts. Other uncommon serious side effects include inflammation inside the eye and increased eye pressure. These can make your vision worse. Some patients have increases in eye pressure within 1 hour of an injection. Your eye doctor should check your eye pressure and eye health during the week after your LUCENTIS injection.
Although not common, LUCENTIS patients have had eye- and non–eye-related blood clots (heart attacks, strokes, and death).
If your eye becomes red, sensitive to light, painful, or has a change in vision, you should call or visit your eye doctor right away.
The most common side effects to your eye are increased redness in the whites of your eye, eye pain, small specks in vision, and the feeling that something is in your eye. The most common non–eye-related side effects are nose and throat infections, headache, and respiratory (lung) infections.
LUCENTIS is for prescription use only.
For additional safety information, please talk to your doctor and see the LUCENTIS full prescribing information.
This site is intended for US residents only.
