Lynda Charters

Preeya Gupta, MD, reported results of the trials at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting in San Diego, showed that CSF-1, a low dose pilocarpine with an optimized formulation, demonstrated significant 2-line improvement from baseline.

In a presentation at the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting in San Diego, Ana Balbuena-Pareja, MSc, explained how cenegermin-bkbj ophthalmic solution 0.002% (Oxervate, Dompé) had a positive effect on corneal nerve regeneration and sensation in patients with neurotrophic keratitis.

Surgeon details training, experience with procedure that offers hope to patients.

Vitrectomy, lensectomy remain the primary surgical approaches for condition.

Efavirenz boosts cholesterol turnover in retina, brain.

Glaucoma specialists nationwide reported that glaucoma-related adverse events were common after cataract surgery in children.

Photobiomodulation is an emerging treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Physician discusses clinical presentations, treatment options for 2 cases.

Surgeon expects more MIGS, less trabeculectomy.

Instead, vitamins C and E may actually be associated with a slightly increased risk of DED.

Body mass index (BMI), central obesity, and the metabolic syndrome may be deciding risk factors in glaucoma.

Therapies to target geographic atrophy are in sight.

Visual impairment is associated with hallucinations, depression, agitation, and psychosis in patients with dementia.

Grace Walther, first author of the study, described that lens centration on the eye may be beneficial for improving vision. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.

Pros and cons of anti-VEGF drugs and improved visualization of abnormalities in ROP.

Hydrogen water intake improved retinal blood flow (RBF) dysregulation in response to flicker stimulation and systemic hyperoxia in type 2 diabetic mice.

Japanese investigators have found an ocular biomarker of cardiovascular diseases.

SB15 (Samsung Bioepis) has shown similar efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety, immunogenicity to aflibercept after 56 Weeks in phase 3 clinical trial.

Defective calcium clearance is a characteristic feature of early damage to the retinal ganglion cells (RGC) in a mouse model of glaucoma.

Current smokers with Graves' Disease had a greater 5-year cumulative probability, compared with patients who had never smoked, of undergoing orbital decompression.

Physicians are using the procedure to treat various stages of the disease.

AVA-Net is a deep-learning network developed by scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

During a presentation at the Vit-Buckle Society meeting in Las Vegas, Sally S. Ong, MD, highlighted a new study of patients who underwent primary repair of uncomplicated RRDs at the Wilmer Eye Institute to examine the baseline, surgical and postoperative characteristics that affect best-corrected VA outcomes.

As technology advances, innovations increase physician capabilities.

A large cohort study found that there is no association between the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and acute RVO.

Daraius Shroff, MD, developed the Triple S toolkit for hAM grafting for use during vitreoretinal surgery, which he described at the 2023 Vit-Buckle Annual Society meeting.

The study compared eyes with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that were treated with laser and age-matched control eyes without ROP.

The ESSENCE-2 study showed a significantly greater reduction in the total corneal fluorescein staining (tCFS) score.