Retina World Congress

Sunir Garg, MD, FACS, shares strategies to minimize pain with intravitreal injections.

Modern Retina spoke with Veeral Sheth, MD, MBA, FASRS, FACS, at the 2024 Retina World Congress meeting about the PRISM study, 4DMT's gene therapy trial for wet AMD.

Michael A. Singer, MD, shares details about the an IRIS database look at Triamcinolone Acetonide.

In a retrospective interventional cohort study, the investigators analyzed the outcomes of 80 patients with submacular hemorrhages who were treated with subretinal aflibercept or intravitreal aflibercept.

Several companies working in the retina space have shared that they plan to release data at this year’s meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Albert J. Augustin, MD, presented a talk entitled, “First Results of the Miniature Telescope in Dry AMD” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Galilean telescope device offers visual improvements for patients with late-stage AMD.

Justis P. Ehlers, MD, dissects the revelations from the data in the Phase 3 Hawk clinical trial regarding the impact of central subfield thickness, volatility and the overall impact on visual acuity.

Dilsher Dhoot, MD, discusses the post hoc analysis of the Copernicus and Galileo trials, which investigated if a delay in treatment would affect visual acuity gains or change in anatomy.

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, discussed the Phase 3 Archway end-of-trial results for the investigation of the Port Delivery System with ranibizumab in neovascular AMD.

Steven Yeh, MD, provides a brief overview of available therapies for noninfectious uveitis and uveitis macular edema.

David Boyer, MD, discusses the Phase 3 investigation for OPT-302 combination therapy for wet AMD.

Though the speed of traditional guillotine cutters has increased significantly in recent years, there are certain limitations. With the advent of hypersonic vitrectomy, Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, explains how retinal surgeons can remove the vitreous gel with more efficiency.

While the DAZZLE trial failed to meet its primary endpoint, KSI-301 demonstrated good initial visual gains and anatomic effects as well as positive durability.

In the study, the faricimab molecule, which is a combined anti-Ang2 and anti-VEGF, performed better than the aflibercept drug in many different ways. Rishi P. Singh, MD, FASRS, summarizes some of these key findings.

Yasha S. Modi, MD, discusses his best tips and tricks for finding and diagnosing infectious uveitis.

Professor Anat Loewenstein, MD, discusses data regarding the efficacy of faricimab at targeting both the VEGF and Ang2 pathways in patients with neovascular AMD and diabetic macular edema.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals hopes to usher in a new paradigm of retinal eye disease treatments with their candidate EYP-1901.

As novel therapies in the pipeline are aiming to decrease the rate of GA expansion—the endpoint Karl Csaky, MD and Fredrick Ferris III, MD, identified in 2007—Dr. Csaky reinforces on the importance of preserving the central retinal tissue.

Results from our recent poll regarding Retina World Congress 2022 attendance indicate that while many retina specialists will attend the Congress, the majority will not be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A poll for retina specialists regarding their attendance at the 2022 Retina World Congress in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This poll is now closed.