How LUCENTIS® (ranibizumab injection) is Given

LUCENTIS^® (ranibizumab injection) is an injection given into your eye. The recommended dosing schedule that has been tested in clinical studies is 1 injection per month.

What you should know about receiving injections in the eye:

Many people who get injections feel some pressure on their eye. Most of the time this pressure is all you will feel. In most cases, the pressure goes away within an hour after the injection
Your Retina Specialist may also give you antibiotic eye drops to use for a few days after the injection to help prevent infection

Important Safety Information

Like other injections given into the eye, serious eye infection, also known as endophthalmitis, and detached retina have occurred with LUCENTIS. In some cases, serious eye infections have been known to cause blindness.

Who is LUCENTIS for?

LUCENTIS^® (ranibizumab injection) is a prescription medicine for the treatment of patients with Macular Edema following Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO).

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


	Possible side effects to discuss with your doctor Some LUCENTIS patients have serious side effects related to the injection. These include serious infections inside the eye, detached retinas, and cataracts. 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, 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.

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