Combined intravitreal bevacizumab and photodynamic therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Background: Our aim was to evaluate the short-term safety and efficacy of combined photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin and intravitreal bevacizumab in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Methods: A prospective non-randomized interventional case series of 30 eyes of 30 patients with choroidal neovascularization (CNV) caused by AMD was studied. All patients were treated with PDT followed by an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (1.

Ovarian function following pelvic irradiation in prepubertal and pubertal girls and young adult women.

Purpose: To analyze the effect of pelvic radiotherapy on ovarian function in prepubertal and pubertal girls and young adult women.

Patients And Methods: In a retrospective monoinstitutional analysis, patients < 30 years of age at diagnosis were included who had been irradiated between 1979 and 1998. The main tumor types were Hodgkin's disease (38%), Ewing's sarcoma (20%) and nephroblastoma (11%).