Review Article

Efficacy Comparison of Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Therapy for Three Subtypes of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the included studies.

First author (year)CountrySubtype of nAMDSample sizeMale (%)Age (year)Vision criteria for recruitmentAnti-VEGF useStudy design

Lai et al. (2007) [13]ChinaType 3425.0081.0 ± 4.12NARanibizumabCase report
Brown et al. (2009) [14]AmericaType 228052.8676.7 ± 8.08NARanibizumaRCT
Costagliola et al. (2010) [15]ItalyType 24544.4465.3 ± 15NABevacizumabRCT
Malgorzata and Stankiewicz (2011) [16]PolandType 22544.0073.23 ± 8.5522–76 ETDRS lettersRanibizumabClinical trial
Coscas et al. (2012) [17]FranceType 22934.4876.3 ± 10.920/400–20/40 by the ETDRS chartsRanibizumabRIS
Kramann et al. (2012) [18]GermanyType 32630.7777 ± 8.25NARanibizumabRetrospective case Series
Ying et al. (2013) [19]AmericaType 1, type 2, type 311053879 ± 820/25–20/320 on electronic VA testingRanibizumab or bevacizumabRCT
Shin and Yu (2014) [20]South KoreaType 33119.3570.4 ± 6.55–75 ETDRS letters (Snellen 20/32–20/800)RanibizumabClinical trial
Hata et al. (2015) [21]JapanType 1 (PCV)7081.4372.2 ± 8.80.7 or less on a Landolt chartRanibizumabRIS
Kano et al. (2015) [22]JapanType 11008675.71 ± 7.790.05 or better by the Japanese decimal VA chartRanibizumab or afliberceptRIS
Park and Roh (2015) [23]South KoreaType 34039.0267.09 ± 11.76NARanibizumabRIS
Castro-Navarro et al. (2016) [24]SpainType 3714.2979.42 ± 7.14<0.1 logMARAfliberceptRIS
Chen et al. (2016) [25]AmericaType 1, type 33636.1180 ± 8.019–73 ETDRS letters (Snellen 20/35–20/400)AfliberceptClinical trial
Daniel et al. (2016) [26]AmericaType 312630.9581.7 ± 7.3020/25–20/320Ranibizumab or bevacizumabClinical trial
Koizumi et al. (2016) [27]JapanType 1 (PCV)86NANANAAfliberceptRIS
Lee et al. (2016) [28]South KoreaType 1, type 22360.8766.52 ± 9.28NARanibizumabRIS
Chevreaud et al. (2017) [29]FranceType 1, PCV, type 2, type 310933.0376.9 ± 8.3NARanibizumabRIS
Kikushima et al. (2017) [30]JapanType 1 (PCV)6983.972.9 ± 7.9Decimal BCVA ≤ 1.2 in the Landolt chartAfliberceptRIS
Koh et al. (2017) [31]SingaporeType 1 (PCV)15475.368.2 ± 9.078–24 ETDRS letters (Snellen 20/32–20/320)RanibizumabRCT
Miere et al. (2017) [32]ItalyType 31533.3382.3 ± 4.9NARanibizumab or bevacizumabRIS
Saito et al. (2017) [33]JapanType 1 (PCV)2090.0072.2 ± 6.4NAAfliberceptClinical trial
Gharbiya et al. (2018) [34]ItalyType 1, type 2, type 37634.2178.67 ± 8.04NARanibizumab or afliberceptClinical trial
Matsumoto et al. (2018) [35]JapanType 1 (half with PCV)6085.0075.1 ± 1.0NAAfliberceptRIS
Mimura et al. (2018) [36]JapanType 1 (PCV), type 35865.5273.08NAAfliberceptRIS

Data are mean ± standard deviation or mean. nAMD: neovascular age-related macular degeneration; anti-VEGF: antivascular endothelial growth factor; PCV: polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy; NA: not available; ETDRS: Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study; RCT: randomized controlled trial; RIS: retrospective interventional study.