Folia Medica Indonesiana
Vol. 55 No. 4 (2019): December

The Effect of Subconjunctival Bevacizumab on Angiogenesis in Rabbit Model

Nurwasis Nurwasis (Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty of Airlangga University / Dr. Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya)
Diana Yuliawati (Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya)
Evelyn Komaratih (Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya)
Heriyawati Heriyawati (Department of Anatomical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya)



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31 Dec 2019

Abstract

The wound healing process is major cause of glaucoma surgery failure and enhances the incapability of controlling the IOP. This aim of study was to evaluate the angiogenesis effect of Bevacizumab injection on the amount and density of blood vessels in the rabbit model after trabeculectomy. It was a true experimental study using 16 eyes of 16 New Zealand White Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that divided into two groups. The control group was treated with 0.05 ml of Balanced Saline Solution (BSS). The experimental group was treated with subconjunctival injection of 1.25 mg Bevacizumab in 0.05 BSS. All rabbit was sacrificed, and the eye was enucleated. Thus, the bleb area was dissected after 14 days. Histopathological analysis was performed to evaluate the amount and density of blood vessels. The mean amount of blood vessels in the control group was 22.63 ± 11.02, and the experimental group was 14,75 ± 4.92 (p=0.043). The mean of blood vessel density in the control group was 19.10 ± 1.69 %, and the experimental group was 16.53 ± 2.90 % (p=0.029)%. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (p<0.05). Subconjunctival bevacizumab in the rabbit model reduces the amount and density of blood vessels compared with subconjunctival BSS injection.

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Folia Medica Indonesiana publishes articles in the field of medical science in particular and health sciences in general, as well as a variety of other fields related to those two disciplines. Most of the articles are research article, and others are articles on case reports and literature review. ...