{"id":2151,"date":"2022-10-09T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/?page_id=2151"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:27:40","slug":"intravitreal-injections-of-anti-vegf-drugs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/treatments\/injection-treatment\/intravitreal-injections-of-anti-vegf-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section id=\"bt_section6a951e01d1e82\"  class=\"boldSection topSemiSpaced bottomSemiSpaced btDarkSkin gutter inherit\" style=\"background-color:rgb(28,76,147);\"><div class=\"port\"><div class=\"boldCell\"><div class=\"boldCellInner\"><div class=\"boldRow  \" ><div class=\"boldRowInner\"><div class=\"rowItem col-md-2  col-sm-4 col-ms-12 btTextLeft\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rowItem col-md-8 col-ms-12 btTextCenter animate animate-fadein inherit\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><header class=\"header btClear extralarge btDash topDash  btAlternateDash\" ><div class=\"btSuperTitle\">Injection treatment<\/div><div class=\"dash\"><h1><span class=\"headline\">Intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF drugs<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/header><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rowItem col-md-2  col-sm-4 col-ms-12 btTextLeft\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section id=\"bt_section6a951e01d22ce\"  class=\"boldSection topSpaced bottomSpaced gutter inherit\" ><div class=\"port\"><div class=\"boldCell\"><div class=\"boldCellInner\"><div class=\"boldRow  \" ><div class=\"boldRowInner\"><div class=\"rowItem col-md-6 col-sm-12 btTextLeft animate animate-fadein inherit\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><div class=\"btClear btSeparator topSemiSpaced bottomSemiSpaced noBorder bt_bb_hidden_xs bt_bb_hidden_ms bt_bb_hidden_sm\" ><hr><\/div><header class=\"header btClear large  btNormalDash\" style=\"text-align:justify;\"><div class=\"btSubTitle\">The most effective therapy currently available for treating certain retinal diseases, such as wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema, is intravitreal injection of specific drugs called anti-VEGFs. These drugs shrink the abnormal vessels that produce the exudation underlying these diseases.<\/div><\/header><div class=\"btClear btSeparator bottomSemiSpaced noBorder bt_bb_hidden_md bt_bb_hidden_lg\" ><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rowItem col-md-6 col-sm-12 btTextLeft animate animate-fadein inherit\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><div class=\"btIconImageRow\" ><div class=\"bpgPhoto btTextCenter\" ><div class=\"btImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/iniezione-antiVEGF.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btClear btSeparator bottomExtraSmallSpaced noBorder\" ><hr><\/div><div class=\"btClear btSeparator bottomSemiSpaced noBorder bt_bb_hidden_md bt_bb_hidden_lg\" ><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"boldRow  \" ><div class=\"boldRowInner\"><div class=\"rowItem col-md-12 col-ms-12  btTextLeft animate animate-fadein inherit\"  ><div class=\"rowItemContent\" ><div class=\"btClear btSeparator bottomExtraSmallSpaced noBorder\" ><hr><\/div><div class=\"btClear btSeparator topSmallSpaced border\" ><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2580,"parent":2143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2151","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151\/revisions\/3383"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceopalermo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}