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Combination therapy may improve management of acute retinal necrosis
Patients treated with a combination systemic and intravitreal antiviral therapy for acute retinal necrosis may be more likely to have an improvement in visual acuity, avoid severe vision loss and have a decreased incidence of retinal detachment, according to a study.The retrospective, single-center, interventional, comparative case series involved 29 eyes of 24 patients with acute retinal necrosis; 14 eyes of 12 patients received combination systemic and intravitreal antiviral therapy, and 15 eyes of 12 patients received systemic antiviral therapy alone.Patients who received combination therapy were more likely to gain two (Read more...)