Lynda Charters

While the advent of anti-VEGF therapies resulted in substantially better outcomes in this patient population, the results can vary substantially among patients.

According to a study, untested therapies can cause retinal detachment and blindness.

According to investigators, surgeons should be aware of the high prevalence of zonular weakness and cystoid macular edema, which may warrant additional preparation in these patients.

A team of investigators evaluated VA outcomes after cataract surgery and the factors associated with good visual outcomes in a population of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater comfort with robotic telepresence in eye screenings.

According to a study, health disparities impact the rates of pediatric ophthalmology visits.

According to Jennifer Loh, MD, women achieve significantly better symptom relief than men.

LENZ Therapeutics has unveiled positive topline data from its INSIGHT study achieved by 2 formulations to treat presbyopia.

Baseline age, best-corrected visual acuity, and central subfield thickness play role in predicting the efficacy of both drugs.

The company noted that testing of a commercial supply of the implants, which included exposing them to multiple punctures with a needle, found they did not meet their standards. The company has notified the FDA, and is working with the agency on the recall process.

The therapy may offer novel treatment strategy with unique mechanism, modality for patients diagnosed with dry age-related macular degeneration.

Chinese investigators found that obesity affects retinal structures in different ways depending on whether the obesity is generalized or abdominal.

With World Sight Day upon us, RestoringVision has issued a lofty but doable goal: to help solve the global vision crisis.

According to a study, vision loss and depression are common conditions with major health implications, but exactly why this association occurs remains a mystery.

This post-hoc analysis was performed to evaluate immunogenicity over the long term.

According 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.

The FDA describes the test as a web-based, self-guided software application that consumers can access using a touchscreen mobile device and internet-connected computer.

A team of researchers reported that oral doxycycline was effective, at least in the short term, for treating patients diagnosed with mild thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.

In 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.

Those who used both traditional and electronic cigarettes reported severe to very severe ophthalmic symptoms.

DME showed small significant improvement in study cohort.

The AVONELLE-X long-term extension study will continue to evaluate the efficacy, durability, and safety of faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD.

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.

The 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.

First-in-human biologic stent in ophthalmology is a conforming implant material, i.e., a soft, scleral wall compliant bio-tissue to structurally reinforce the cyclodialysis cleft opening.

In 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.

During 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.

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.

At the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting in Chicago, Gautam Kamthan, MD, discussed the feasibility of robot-assisted ophthalmic gonio-surgery.

Anti-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.