Impact of Cataract Surgery during Treatment with Ranibizumab in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema.

Purpose: To determine how best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was affected by cataract surgery in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) who were treated with ranibizumab during the RIDE/RISE phase III trials.

Design: Post hoc analysis of data from RIDE and RISE, 2 phase III, parallel, randomized, multicenter, double-masked trials (clinicaltrials.gov identifiers, NCT00473382 and NCT00473330).