Retina

Options for physicians are increasing in availability with fewer burdens for patients.

Minimizing clinic visits, maximizing use of imaging modalities are key.

Physician offers patient counseling pearls for selected retinal diseases.

During the trial, a patient gained vision, which lasted more than a year, after a single injection of an experimental RNA therapy into the eye.

Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO, and Mark Breazzano, MD, discuss current research being conducted involving AMD and maximizing patient outcomes amid the pandemic.

Study highlights role of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics in treatment.

The results from Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network protocols have become the standard of care for treating DME and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Option demonstrates stable to improved visual acuity and retinal thickness.

Rapid fluid identification may result in better visual outcomes.

SemaThera Inc. has announced a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Roche to develop a new class of biologicals for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy and other ischemic retinal diseases.

Investigators observe dramatic decrease in treatment burden seen in OPTIC study.

Protocol V delves into observation of disease.

Investigators set out to determine if treatment crosses blood-retina barrier.

Technology helps physicians understand normal and abnormal macular anatomy.

Graybug Vision, Inc. has reported preliminary topline data from a 12-month treatment phase of its Phase 2b ALTISSIMO trial of GB-102 for the treatment of wet AMD.

Transient sensory-motor abnormalities are often common.

Treatment may facilitate sight in end-stage retinitis pigmentosa.

Baseline diabetic retinopathy severity is an important predictor of its progression in patients.

Women 34% less likely to receive retinal detachment repair.

Tool can help physicians detect, monitor ophthalmic disease in their patients.

Visits, elective procedures decreased as physicians responded to COVID-19 guidelines.

Treatment of patients with COVID-19 should include ophthalmic considerations.

Studies look at absorption of drugs resulting in systemic complications.

Key is to recognize usual patterns for systemic and topical medications.