Lynda Charters

A study conducted by Gemmy Cheung, MBBS, FRCOphth and colleagues shows geographic atrophy (GA) lesion phenotypes, associated features, and growth rates differ between Asians and non-Asians.

According to investigators pointed out that while good surgical results are obtained with small and medium-sized macular holes, it is important to determine the hole diameters at which the success rates of conventional surgery begin to decline.

The Bascom Palmer program showcases neovascular, exudative, and degenerative eye diseases, and is designed for retina specialists, general ophthalmologists, and researchers.

Based on their findings, an international team of researchers is discouraging the application of atropine as a standard therapy for trabeculectomy surgery.

The transaction between the 2 companies is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.

According to researchers, factors that were associated with all type of visual impairment included older age, lower education level, and lower income were associated with all types of visual impairment.

In the study, investigators conducted a cross-sectional study with the goal of evaluating a correlation between the number of peer-reviewed publications published before a residency and the subsequent peer-reviewed publications or career choices of doctors who graduated from an ophthalmology residency program.

No treatment is currently available for the early stages of AMD, but some retrospective studies have reported an association between metformin and reduced risk of AMD.

Investigators concluded that both formulations of AR-1105 were well-tolerated and provided clinically meaningful and sustained visual improvements in vision and decreased retinal thickening despite that some patients had difficult-to-treat BRVO or CRVO with longstanding edema.

When dietary patterns were adjusted to include a Mediterranean diet, dietary nitrate intake was not associated with AMD progression independently.

The investigators set out to determine how well ophthalmologists actually are represented when individuals conduct a Google search compared with their proportion in each U.S. county.

The use of heavy silicone oil tamponade in secondary surgery for persistent full-thickness macular holes is a safe and efficient surgical method. Best-corrected visual acuity and minimum linear diameter before surgery may be indicators for anatomical success.

ROP is thought to be a two-stage disorder that begins with the arrested development of the retinal vessels in preterm babies when exposed to high oxygen levels at birth.

Spanish investigators found that local resection may offer better visual results and eye sparing without compromising local tumor control and survival.

In a multicenter phase 1/2 safety study conducted in the US and UK, researchers conducted a dose-escalation trial of AAV5-RPGR that included low, intermediate, and high doses of the gene therapy administered to 3, 4, and 3 adults, respectively.

Investigators examining end-stage RP witness the partial visual recovery in 2 patients.

Intravitreally injected anti-VEGF drugs are undergoing investigation as researchers look for new treatment options.

David Eichenbaum, MD, FASRS, shared difficult cases of diabetic macular edema (DME) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and insights into patient care.

In both patients and controls, investigators measured retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, foveal avascular zone area, and vessel density in the superficial capillary plexus, deep capillary plexus, and radial peripapillary capillary plexus.

In a real-world setting, eyes with AMD with a relatively good initial best-corrected visual acuity and no fibrovascular pigment epithelial detachment sustained or improved BCVA after anti-VEGF therapy within 3 years of follow-up.

The Sailing study was a 12-month, 18-center, randomized, double-masked, double-sham, parallel-controlled, phase 3 trial that was conducted in China and included eyes with center-involved DME that were randomly assigned to undergo either laser photocoagulation followed by as-needed sham intravitreal injections or sham laser photocoagulation followed by as-needed 0.5 mg intravitreal injections of conbercept.

In this retrospective, non-comparative clinical study, the investigators evaluated the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative data of the 225 study patients (295 eyes; mean patient age, 56.1 years) collected from several European centers.

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

In this cross-sectional study, investigators used OCTA to identify possible associations between body mass index and the waist-to-hip ratio with macular vessel density and foveal avascular zone in healthy Chinese adults.

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.

Investigators conducted a longitudinal study of the relationship between smoking and smoking intensity and the rate with which the retinal nerve fiber layer becomes thinner in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.

The investigators suggested that the predicted metastasis-free survival for metastatic tumors may be worse than what they and other research groups have observed.

Anti-VEGF therapy for ROP has potential ocular and systemic advantages compared with laser but also noted that the systemic risks of anti-VEGF therapy in these infants need to be quantified.

The goal of World Sight Day, according to IAPB, is “to shine a light on blindness and vision impairment as a major, but solvable, public health issue."