Standard Of Care

LOS ANGELES — A dropless regimen for cataract surgery had similar inflammation rates as standard of care, according to a study presented at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.

CHICAGO — Sotatercept, an activin signaling inhibitor, was associated with improved outcomes in patients with advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension at high risk for death, a speaker reported.

INDIANAPOLIS — Dry eye management strategies vary widely from practitioner to practitioner, highlighting the lack of evidence-based guidelines, according to a poster presented at Academy 2024.

SAN DIEGO — Health care providers and advocates must confront social disparities among patients with kidney disease to improve the standard of care, American Society of Nephrology President Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM, FASN, said.

Opthea has completed enrollment of its phase 3 COAST and ShORe trials, which will investigate the safety and efficacy of sozinibercept in combination with anti-VEGF-A therapy for wet age-related macular degeneration.

Addressing disparities in standard of care in disease monitoring and perception of disease progression could improve treatment for adults with Fabry disease, according to published data.

The American Optometric Association and CooperVision have partnered to launch The Myopia Collective, which aims to elevate the standard of care for children with myopia through comprehensive treatment, rather than just correction.

Scaling up hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons effectively reduced HCV incidence and was a cost-effective option compared with existing services, data from a study in Australian prisons showed.

In this video, Eunice Wang, MD, discusses the use of venetoclax azacitidine as a standard of care therapy for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

It seems long ago now that so much has changed, but just a few decades ago, interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists and others who work daily with X-ray machines lived in a very different world.