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July 16, 2022
Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology, chairman of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, outlined his investigation of the anatomic and functional outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy, scleral buckle, or a combination of the 2, and suggested that the combination approach may need further consideration.
July 16, 2022
Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Carl Danzig, MD, detailed how treatment with faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD resulted in improvements in visual acuity, central subfield thickness and pigment epithelial detachments.
July 15, 2022
During a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD, presented results of a study that examined the accuracy of tools for predicting the risk of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy.
July 15, 2022
In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists, Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD, points out that the low-to-moderate doses of metformin carried the greatest potential benefit in a retrospective case-control study.
July 14, 2022
In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, detailed that primary scleral buckling achieved the best visual acuity, and pointed out that rhegmatogenous detachments increased with age.
July 14, 2022
In the TENAYA and LUCERNE studies, more than 60% of faricimab patients could be treated every 4 months at 2 years, an increase from 45% at year 1. Study results are being presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York.
July 07, 2022
A team of investigators form Johns Hopkins Medicine say they’ve discovered that levels of a specific protein appears to help accurately predict whether people with the wet form of age-related macular degeneration may need lifelong, frequent eye injections to preserve vision or if they can be safely weaned off the treatments.
July 05, 2022
A team of investigators at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore have developed a bio-functional thermogel, a type of synthetic polymer, to prevent retinal scarring caused by failed retinal detachment repair surgery.
June 29, 2022
The FDA has accepted the supplemental Biologics License Application of aflibercept injection for review in patients with diabetic retinopathy.