Efficacy and safety of phacoemulsification cataract surgery with prophylactic vitreous injection of bevacizumab in the treatment of retinopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

For patients with cataracts and retinopathy, phacoemulsification can improve the progress of the disease to a certain extent. However, the efficacy of phacoemulsification alone is often not ideal, and may even aggravate the prognostic effects, such as macular edema and slow visual recovery. Thus, an increasing number of clinicians have explored comprehensive therapy involving phacoemulsification combined with drug therapy, which has led to some research progress. However, there is still great controversy about the combined treatment. In this study, we performed a literature meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of prophylactic intravitreal injection of bevacizumab combined with phacoemulsification for the treatment of cataracts complicated with retinopathy.