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Are Time-Release Implants an Effective Treatment for Uveitis?

Posted By Dr. Ari Weitzner On August 24, 2011 @ 11:30 am In Research,Uveitis | Comments Disabled

A team of researchers The Mount Sinai Medical Center lead by Dr. Douglas A. Jabs recently published the outcome of a study (the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial), comparing the two leading treatment approaches for uveitis.

The researchers found that a time-release corticosteroid implant placed surgically in the eye (which slowly releases corticosteroid medication over a period of up to three years) is similarly effective in treating the disease as anti-inflammatory corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drugs taken orally.

The FDA approved the intraocular implant for treatment of uveitis in 2005.

Click here [1] to read the full release announcing the results of the study.


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