WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — A study found that patients were less comfortable when receiving povidone-iodine as ocular antisepsis before an intravitreal injection compared with aqueous chlorhexidine, a ...

From April 8, 2018, to June 8, 2021, the researchers randomized assigned 1,638 patients (mean age of 44.9 years) to either aqueous 10% povidone-iodine (n = 828) or aqueous 4% chlorhexidine ...