VIDEO: 'Major breakthrough' in geographic atrophy management

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Well, geographic atrophy is kind of last stage of dry, age-related macular degeneration, and for years we thought it was irreversible and progressive, and nothing we could do about it. And it's interesting, you know, 10 years ago wet AMD was the bane of our existence. Today it is dry AMD, or geographic atrophy, and what we know about geographic atrophy is that the immune system, the complement cascade system, plays a significant role in geographic atrophy. And we just recently have had two FDA approvals of two medications that are given intravitreally that have been shown to slow the progression of geographic atrophy. And this is a major breakthrough in the management of one of the most common, irreversible losses of vision we have in ophthalmology.