Optical Coherence Tomography

Common sight-threatening retinal diseases seen by all comprehensive ophthalmologists include wet age-related macular degeneration, geographic atrophy and diabetic macular edema.

Retinal diseases are a major cause of severe vision loss, with numbers constantly increasing due to the aging of the population, the diabetes epidemic and the growing prevalence of high myopia.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2024, Jennifer Loh, MD, discusses the use of swept-source OCT biometry for premium IOL calculations.

NEW YORK — In a presentation at OSN New York, Sarah H. Van Tassel, MD, discusses the expanding roles of retinal imaging and functional tests as useful tools in glaucoma.

Among the newer diagnostics used to quantify diabetic retinal disease, the level of evidence is highest for spectral-domain OCT, suggesting its potential role in an updated classification scheme, according to a literature review.

ROME — In this Healio Video Perspective from the FLORetina-ICOOR meeting, Giovanni Staurenghi, MD, discusses high-resolution OCT.

ROME — In this Healio Video Perspective at the FLORetina-ICOOR meeting, James G. Fujimoto, PhD, speaks about advancements in high resolution spectral-domain OCT.

ROME — In this Healio Video Perspective from the FLORetina-ICOOR meeting, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, shares her knowledge and firsthand experience with AI-based OCT analysis of geographic atrophy.

ROME — In this Healio Video Perspective from the FLORetina-ICOOR meeting, Marco Lupidi, MD, PhD, speaks about his lecture on OCTA, giving pearls on how to obtain the best OCT angiogram.

ROME — Two injectable drugs with mitochondrial-stabilizing properties, risuteganib and elamipretide, show promise in reversing vision loss in dry age-related macular degeneration.