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What medication is in the shot that is given in your eye for macular degeneration?
Answer:
There are two medicines available on the market for injection into the eye. For the wet type of macular degeneration: Avastin and Lucentis. Both of them consist of a medicine that is an antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor, so they slow down or stop the growth of bad blood vessels growing in the eye.
Answered by: Abdhish Bhavsar, MD
Categories: Eye Diseases, Eye Conditions
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