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ArticlePharmaceutics2019

Hydrodynamics of Intravitreal Injections into Liquid Vitreous Substitutes.

Christin Henein, Sahar Awwad, Nkiruka Ibeanu, Stavros Vlatakis, Steve Brocchini, Peng Tee Khaw, Yann Bouremel

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanical stresses on the retina induced by intravitreal injections in an artificial model of the vitreous chamber.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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  7. Vitreous Substitutes as Drug Release Systems.Translational vision science & technology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Christin HeneinBiomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), London EC1V 9EL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6972-5355
Sahar AwwadBiomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), London EC1V 9EL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4430-2508
Nkiruka IbeanuSchool of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, UK.
Stavros VlatakisSchool of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, UK.
Steve BrocchiniBiomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), London EC1V 9EL, UK.
Peng Tee KhawBiomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), London EC1V 9EL, UK.
Yann BouremelBiomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), London EC1V 9EL, UK. y.bouremel@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1852-872X

Funding

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre 513211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intravitreal injections have become the cornerstone of retinal care and one of the most commonly performed procedures across all medical specialties. The impact of hydrodynamic forces of intravitreal solutions when injected into vitreous or vitreous substitutes has not been well described. While computational models do exist, they tend to underestimate the starting surface area of an injected bolus of a drug. Here, we report the dispersion profile of a dye bolus (50 µL) injected into different vitreous substitutes of varying viscosities, surface tensions, and volumetric densities. A novel 3D printed in vitro model of the vitreous cavity of the eye was designed to visualize the dispersion profile of solutions when injected into the following vitreous substitutes-balanced salt solution (BSS), sodium hyaluronate (HA), and silicone oils (SO)-using a 30G needle with a Reynolds number (

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densitydistributionhyaluronic acidhydrodynamicsintravitreal injectionsurface tensionviscosityvitreous

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PMID31374925
PMCPMC6723562

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