Discoveries in AMD

SEATTLE — A study on progression of dry age-related macular degeneration found that smoking did not affect the likelihood of developing wet AMD, but smokers had worse visual acuity than nonsmokers.

SEATTLE — More effort is needed to include health equity information in systematic reviews and meta-analyses on geographic atrophy, according to a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.

SEATTLE — Patients who develop certain subtypes of geographic atrophy may be at risk for a decline in health-related quality of life, according to research presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

SEATTLE — Receiving travel support may help patients with age-related macular degeneration undergo more injections, regardless of the distance needed to travel for treatment, according to research presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

The majority of patients with age-related macular degeneration benefitted from a regimen with bevacizumab as the first-line therapy, and in this video, Shriji Patel, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and co-fellowship director of vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, explains why this study was undertaken and his thoughts for future research.

In this video, Raphael Defina, with the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, discusses data from the cross-sectional, observational clinical study that showed that inner retinal integrity is critical for visual function following epiretinal membrane surgery.

In this exclusive video, Christine A. Curcio, PhD, White-McKee endowed professor in ophthalmology in the department of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, explains how hyperreflective foci — which are commonly detected during OCT B scans of patients with age-related macular degeneration — are “huge risk factors for the progression to atrophy.”

Intravitreal ranibizumab with delayed laser photocoagulation effectively treated severe zone I and posterior zone II retinopathy of prematurity, according to findings presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Novel machine-learning using ellipsoid zone area defect revealed a correlation of improvement in mean visual acuity and decrease in defect, according to data presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.

Usher syndrome type 2 caused greater visual field loss than asymptomatic retinitis pigmentosa, according to data presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.