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Post-marketing data in patients with wet AMD
The rates below include cases reported from date of Beovu approval (October 2019) through October 22, 2021.* These events have been reported in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Adverse event† |
Post-marketing adverse event rates in patients with wet AMD
|
|---|---|
|
Retinal vasculitis |
5.6 per 10,000 injections |
|
Retinal vascular occlusion‡ |
3.2 per 10,000 injections |
|
Retinal vasculitis + retinal vascular occlusion† |
6.7 per 10,000 injections |
|
Total of three events of interest |
15.5 per 10,000 injections |
| Vision loss for total of three events of interest§ |
4.8 per 10,000 injections |
*Spontaneous post-marketing reporting systems have several limitations, which can include under-reporting, incompletely documented cases and cases without imaging information
†Event rates are discrete; there is no duplication between categories
‡The term “retinal vascular occlusion” includes physician reports of ocular and retinal infarction and ischemia, retinal vascular (artery and vein) occlusion, stenosis, thrombosis, and embolism.
§The term vision loss includes physician reports of blindness, blindness unilateral, blindness transient or central vision loss