VIDEO: Why geographic atrophy has been the 'bane of most retina specialists' existence'

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Geographic atrophy has been probably the bane of most retina specialists’ existence primarily because there are no decent treatment options available. You know, we prescribe AREDS vitamins or AREDS2 vitamins to our patients, and the rationale for doing that is really for slowing the progression to advanced AMD, but all the therapeutic benefit occurs in reducing the risk of progressing to the exudative form of macular degeneration. So we really don’t have any therapeutic options for geographic atrophy specifically. Rather, it’s just about surveillance of their vision and trying to detect early conversion to wet AMD.