Bioethics of intervention and the case of drugs Bevacizumab and Ranibizumab for retinal diseases
From the year 2000, on a class of biological drugs, the anti-VEGF proved to be quite effective in the treatment of retinal diseases, which have in its pathophysiological mechanism an important vascular proliferation component that can lead to blindness. Two of these drugs, bevacizumab and ranibizuma...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2016-10-01
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Series: | Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética |
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Online Access: | http://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/bioetica-revista-iberoamericana/article/view/7346 |