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Purpose: To assess efficacy and safety profile of intravitreal brolucizumab in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in real clinical practice.Patients and Methods. This study enrolled 21 patients with nAMD (treatment-naïve), including 12 women, 9 men, mean age was 73.5 ± 9.8 years. One patient was excluded from the study after 3 intravitreal injection (IVI) due to the development of the intraocular inflammation (IOI). All patients received 5 IVI of brolucizumab (in total, 100 injections). All patients were determined best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA). Intraretinal fluid (IRF), subretinal fluid (SRF), central macular thickness (CMT), and pigment epithelial detachment (PED) were evaluated by optical coherence tomography. Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured before IVI, after 1 minute, 30 minutes. Patients were examined before treatment, after 3 and 5 IVI.Results. The average follow-up period for patients was 31 ± 2.5 weeks, the average interval after 3 loading doses was 8.4 ± 1.2 weeks, the average interval between 4 IVI and 5 IVI was 10.7 ± 1.9 weeks. The BCVA improved significantly after 3 IVI and after 5 IVI of brolucizumab (p < 0.001). There was a statistically significant decrease in CMT and PED height (p < 0.001), as well as a resolution of all types of fluid (p < 0.001). All patients showed a significant increase in IOP immediately after injection (1 min) with normalization of IOP after 30 min. One case of IOI was registered 16 weeks after the start of treatment, cured by IVI of dexamethasone implant Ozurdex.Conclusion. Patients with nAMD (treatment-naïve) who received 5 IVI of brolucizumab demonstrated a significant improvement of morphological and functional parameters. Brolucizumab has shown efficacy in the treatment of nAMD despite a small risk of IOI.

PURPOSE. To identify the predictors of increased intraocular pressure (IOP) after intravitreal injection (IVI) of an antiVEGF drug using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT), and to study changes in the iris-lens diaphragm produced by multiple injections in the treatment of neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).METHODS. IOP was measured with an ICare Pro tonometer before IVI, 1 minute after IVI, 30 minutes, 60 minutes and 180 minutes later. Anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber angle (ACA), and lens thickness were assessed using Revo NX tomograph (Optopol, Poland). The study was carried out before IVI, one month after the first IVI, one month after the third IVI, one year after the start of treatment. Axial length was measured once before IVI.RESULTS. An inverse correlation was found between axial length and an increase in IOP 1 min after IVI (r=0.65, p<0.001). According to AS-OCT data, one year after the start of treatment there was a significant decrease in ACD compared to the data before treatment (p><0.001), as well as a decrease in all parameters of ACA (p><0.05). Shorter axial length (R2 =0.45, p><0.05), shorter ACD (R2 =0.44, p><0.05), smaller ACA on the nasal (R2 =0.37, p><0.05) and temporal (R2 =0.39, p><0.05) sides in patients with their own lens led to a greater rise in IOP 1 min after IVI.CONCLUSION. Predictors of a sharp increase in IOP after IVI of an anti-VEGF drug in patients with nAMD that can be detected with AS-OCT are shorter ACD and smaller ACA. The following prognostic model was determined — with a 1-mm decrease in the axial length, an increase in IOP by 2.3 mm Hg should be expected, a decrease in ACA from the temporal side by 1° leads to an increase in IOP of 0.28 mm Hg>

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