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A Pilot Study on Ocular Safety and Efficacy of Infliximab as an Antifibrotic Agent After Experimental Glaucoma Filtration Surgery.

Eleni NikitaAlexandre MoulinIoannis VergadosDimitrios BrouzasPanagiotis G Theodossiadis
Published in: Ophthalmology and therapy (2017)
Our results have shown that trabeculectomies in the infliximab group failed faster and displayed more scarring, compared to the control and MMC groups. This outcome suggests that the infliximab doses used in this pilot study resulted in a subconjunctival TNF-α concentration, which acted as a stimulator to fibroblasts.
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