Decreasing risk of ocular surface damage by taping masks to skin during the COVID-19 pandemic
May 2nd 2022ARVO
During a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Denver, Yuichi Hori, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that taping the top border of a surgical mask to a clinicians’ skin reduces the potential for ocular surface damage resulting from expirations of air reaching the ocular surface during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Study examines relationship between dry eye disease and high myopia in teenagers
May 2nd 2022ARVO
In a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting, Osama Ibrahim Hirayama, MD, and colleagues offered results that demonstrating that anisometropia and astigmatic error were greater among the patients with high myopia compared with the other groups. Compared with the subjects with no myopia, those with high myopia reported significantly more dryness, less photophobia, and less pain.
Highlighting major advances in retinal diagnostics, therapeutics presented at Angiogenesis 2022
March 4th 2022Angiogenesis
Presenters at the conference provided new evidence about detecting geography atrophy and wet and dry AMD early and predicting disease progression. Investigators are also focused on finding cures for inherited retinal diseases.
Growth of GA lesions slowed by avacincaptad pegol in clinical trial
February 11th 2022Angiogenesis
In a presentation at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s 19th annual Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration 2022 Virtual Edition, Glenn J. Jaffe, MD, noted that the analysis showed, for the first time, a decreased growth rate in the central foveal area by a therapeutic intervention when compared to sham treatment.