Drug class

Ophthalmic - Photodynamic Therapy Agents

Ophthalmic photodynamic therapy agents are light-activated photosensitizing drugs used in procedural ophthalmology to target and treat pathological ocular vasculature. Read more about Ophthalmic - Photodynamic Therapy Agents

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VISUDYNE (verteporfin)

OPHTHALMIC - PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY AGENTS · CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION ·+3
Bausch Health US

VISUDYNE (verteporfin)

OPHTHALMIC - PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY AGENTS · CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION ·+3
BAUSCH & LOMB P
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About Ophthalmic - Photodynamic Therapy Agents.

Ophthalmic photodynamic therapy agents are light-activated photosensitizing drugs used in procedural ophthalmology to target and treat pathological ocular vasculature.

The primary agent in this category is intravenously administered verteporfin, which selectively accumulates in abnormal vascular endothelium and is subsequently activated by non-thermal red laser light directed into the eye.

Upon activation, the drug generates local reactive oxygen species that induce targeted endothelial damage, vessel thrombosis, and vascular occlusion while minimizing injury to surrounding normal retinal tissue.

Clinically, these agents are primarily indicated for managing subfoveal choroidal neovascularization, notably due to neovascular age-related macular degeneration, pathologic myopia, or presumed ocular histoplasmosis, as well as conditions like central serous chorioretinopathy.