CADTH Canadian Drug Expert Committee recommendation: Brolucizumab (Beovu -- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.) indication : treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD)

Brolucizumab has a Health Canada indication for the treatment of nAMD. Brolucizumab is a humanized monoclonal single-chain Fv (scFv) antibody fragment directed against human VEGF. It is available as a single-use pre-filled syringe for intravitreal injection and the Health Canada-approved dose is 6 m...

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Corporate Authors: CADTH Canadian Drug Expert Committee, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa (ON) Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health 2020, May 2020
Edition:Version: 1
Series:CADTH common drug review
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a Brolucizumab has a Health Canada indication for the treatment of nAMD. Brolucizumab is a humanized monoclonal single-chain Fv (scFv) antibody fragment directed against human VEGF. It is available as a single-use pre-filled syringe for intravitreal injection and the Health Canada-approved dose is 6 mg (0.05 mL) administered by intravitreal injection every four weeks for the first three doses, after which it can be given as one injection every 12 weeks in patients without disease activity or one injection every eight weeks in patients with disease activity, based on the physician assessment