Efficacy and Safety of Ranibizumab in Patients With Subfoveal Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) Secondary to Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

A Randomized, Double-masked, Active-controlled, Multi-center Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Ranibizumab Administered as Two Dosing Regimens in Patients With Subfoveal Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Age-related Macular Degeneration

The study will test if the efficacy and safety of an alternative dosing regimen is as effective as monthly injections.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with primary or recurrent subfoveal CNV secondary to AMD, including those with predominantly classic, minimally classic or occult lesions with no classic component
• Patients who have a BCVA score between 73 and 24 letters, inclusively, in the study eye using ETDRS-like grading charts (approximately 20/40 to 20/320)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior treatment in the study eye with verteporfin, external-beam radiation therapy, subfoveal focal laser photocoagulation, vitrectomy, or transpupillary thermotherapy.
• History of submacular surgery or other surgical intervention for AMD in the study eye, glaucoma filtration surgery, corneal transplant surgery.
• Laser photocoagulation (juxtafoveal or extrafoveal) in the study eye within one month preceding Baseline.

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria applied to the study.