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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Comparison of Endophthalmitis Rates Between Prefilled Syringes and Standard Vials in Aflibercept Intravitreal Injections: A Retrospective Study in Japan.

Masakazu Morioka, Yoshihiro Takamura, Shigeo Yoshida, Junya Mori, Tomoko Sawada, Hisashi Matsubara, Sentaro Kusuhara, Tomoya Murakami, Aki Kato, Hitoshi Tabuchi and 10 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Endophthalmitis rates following intravitreal injection of aflibercept using a prefilled syringe - a multicenter study.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Masakazu MoriokaJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8963-8064
Yoshihiro TakamuraJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0418-6829
Shigeo YoshidaJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Junya MoriJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Tomoko SawadaJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Hisashi MatsubaraJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Sentaro KusuharaJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6458-539X
Tomoya MurakamiJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5421-8580
Aki KatoJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9350-6809
Hitoshi TabuchiJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Daisuke NagasatoJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Tetsuo UedaJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Masahiko ShimuraJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Takao HiranoJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3601-8053
Tatsuya JujoJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Yoshinori MitamuraJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4813-672X
Masashi NishigakiJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Kozo HarimotoJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Mariko SasakiJ-CREST (Japan Clinical REtina STudy Group), Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5608-0546
Masaru InataniDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Yoshida 910-1193, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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afliberceptendophthalmitisprefilled syringe

Identifiers

PMID40217940
PMCPMC11989504

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