Study: VKC treatment proves inadequate, costly for symptom/complication control
October 8th 2022According to investigators, treatment options available for patients diagnosed with vernal keratoconjunctivitis are less than adequate and these patients have higher rates of corneal complications and use more healthcare resources despite treatment.
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AAO LIVE: Researchers target risk factors for development of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments
October 3rd 2022In a presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Chicago, William Kearney and Dan Gong, MD, discussed how patients with a unilateral retinal detachment frequently ask about the risk of developing an RRD in their fellow eye.
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In a presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Chicago, Ines Lains, MD, PhD, detailed how adjunct treatment with intravitreal antivirals or early pars plana vitrectomy did not improve the rates of retinal detachment in patients diagnosed with acute retinal necrosis.
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Center-involved DME resolves faster with faricimab than aflibercept
October 2nd 2022The data analysis indicated that patients achieved robust visual gains and central subfield thickness reductions with faricimab dosed every 8 weeks and with PTI dosing up to every 16 weeks. The gains were sustained through year 2 of the trials.
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AAO: Strong link found between normal-tension glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease
October 1st 2022In a poster presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Chicago, Yu-Yen Chen, MD, PhD, noted that patients diagnosed with normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) have a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared with those without NTG.
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AAO LIVE: Study compares dry eye disease in adult, pediatric populations in IRIS registry
October 1st 2022During a presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Chicago, Vivian Paraskevi Douglas, MD, DVM, MBA, MSc, detailed a study in which investigators used the extensive data in the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry to study the difference between the pediatric and adult populations.
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During a presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago, Maria A. Guzman Aparicio, MD, and Teresa C. Chen, MD, detailed their research that found that pediatric patients have a significantly higher incidence of new-onset strabismus after tube shunt surgery for glaucoma compared with adults.
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Ranibizumab biosimilar achieves similar results in patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
September 27th 2022Anti-VEGF biosimilars may offer a therapeutic alternative to the original biologic because they have the ability to lower the overall therapeutic cost in the management of varied chorioretinal disorders.
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Conjunctivitis in patient with monkeypox: Possible mode of disease transmission
September 11th 2022Spanish investigators from the Ophthalmology Service, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, led by first author Fernando Ly-Yang, MD, reported the case of a 42-year-old man with monkeypox.
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Hair cortisol level as a molecular biomarker in retinitis pigmentosa patients
September 10th 2022The research, presented at the 22nd EURETINA World Congress, outlined that patients with RP experience greater levels of stress and anxiety than individuals in the general population and that the level of stress can be measured easily and non-invasively in hair.
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EURETINA LIVE: Research focuses on retinal issues following COVID-19 infection
September 4th 2022A study detailed at the 22nd EURETINA Congress in Hamburg, Germany, documented a spectrum of manifestations following COVID-19 infections in an otherwise immunocompetent patient presenting at a tertiary care center.
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