title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Conbercept Pretreatment before Vitrectomy in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.
abstract: Purpose. To determine the efficacy and safety of preoperative intravitreal conbercept (IVC) injection before vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). Methods. 107 eyes of 88 patients that underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for active PDR were enrolled. All patients were assigned randomly to either preoperative IVC group or control group. Follow-up examinations were performed for three months after surgery. The primary bioactivity measures were severity of intraoperative bleeding, incidence of early and late recurrent VH, vitreous clear-up time, and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) levels. The secondary safety measures included intraocular pressure, endophthalmitis, rubeosis, tractional retinal detachment, and systemic adverse events. Results. The incidence and severity of intraoperative bleeding were significantly lower in IVC group than in the control group. The average vitreous clear-up time of early recurrent VH was significantly shorter in IVC group compared with that in control group. There was no significant difference in vitreous clear-up time of late recurrent VH between the two groups. Patients that received pretreatment of conbercept had much better BCVA at 3 days, 1 week, and 1 month after surgery than control group. Moreover, both patients with improved BCVA were greater in IVC group than in control group at each follow-up. Conclusions. Conbercept pretreatment could be an effective adjunct to vitrectomy in accelerating postoperative vitreous clear-up and acquiring stable visual acuity restoration for PDR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Xiaochun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Jianbiao
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4769-8664
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Ruili
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mei
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Huo
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4009-6970
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong 510062, China.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Ocular Fundus Disease Research Center of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan 650032, China.
authors.forename: Haiyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao