Optometry News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The first-in-human bimanual vitrectomy performed with a robot at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, was presented here at the Retina World Congress.

Life as a health care professional can be stressful, but there is a quick technique that can combat feelings of tension.

SEATTLE — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Dolly Shuo-Teh Chang, MD, of Genentech discusses the effect of intraretinal fluid volume reduction on anatomical and visual outcomes in diabetic macular edema.

The addition of iStent inject, an ab interno trabecular micro-bypass device, to cataract surgery reduced ocular hypotensive medication usage among patients with glaucoma, according to a study published in Ophthalmology Glaucoma.

Aldeyra Therapeutics has enrolled the first patient in a phase 3 clinical trial designed to allow possible resubmission of the new drug application of topical 0.25% reproxalap for dry eye disease, according to a company press release.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Retina World Congress, Christine Kay, MD, discusses MCO-010, a gene-agnostic therapy for patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Autoimmune retinopathy is a rare disease that is difficult to diagnose because of the near absence of clinical findings, symptom overlap with those of other diseases and limited, nonstandardized diagnostic criteria.

More than half of patients with type 2 diabetic nephropathy had dry eye disease, which was independently associated with older age, high HbA1C and reduced glomerular filtration rate, according to research conducted in Vietnam.

SEATTLE — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Jaclyn L. Kovach, MD, discusses the beneficial effects on macular function of continuous pegcetacoplan treatment in geographic atrophy.

Cyclosporine 0.05% outperformed artificial tears in improving tear film quality and stability in the treatment of dry eye disease after cataract surgery, according to a study published in Annals of Medicine & Surgery.