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Thursday, December 20, 2007

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A TWO-year-old West Papuan refugee has undergone world-first surgery to correct a rare eye abnormality and save his sight. Julian Inarkombu had a rare congenital eye abnormality - cryptophtalmos - in which eyelids fail to form properly and skin fuses to the eyeball.

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All of the following drugs are FDA approved for the treatment of minimally classic subfoveal CNV in patients with neovascular AMD with evidence of recent disease progression (loss of vision, growth of CNV on FA, new macular hemorrhage) except for which one?
1. Pegaptanib sodium (Macugen)
2. Verteporfin (Visudyne PDT)
3. Ranibizumab (Lucentis)
4. None of the above
5. All of the above
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