Neurosciences News

A patient who underwent a combined whole eye and face transplant maintained globe and retinal perfusion as well as retinal response to light with no instance of acute rejection, according to a report in JAMA.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Alexander S. Fein, MD, of Doheny Eye Institute and Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, discusses managing patients with transient monocular vision loss.

What risks should we accept in exchange for a miracle?

Recent research has suggested that GLP-1 agonists used to treat obesity might be associated with a stroke in the optic nerve, but association is not the same as causation.

A paper recently published in JAMA Ophthalmology by Hathaway and colleagues at Harvard suggested a potential association between prescribed semaglutide and an increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.

Drugs utilized to treat systemic diseases can do harm to the eye and its neural connections.

A 53-year-old man presented to the comprehensive ophthalmology service at New England Eye Center for a second opinion of a new dark gray spot in his upper right visual field.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Valérie Biousse, MD, of Emory Eye Center discusses the impact of a nonmydriatic fundus OCT camera from Topcon Healthcare on ophthalmic screening in the emergency department.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Oculis CEO Riad Sherif, MD, provides a status report on OCS-01, OCS-02 and OCS-05 eye drops.