At-home telemonitoring can help with early detection of choroidal neovascularization in at-risk patients, resulting in less visual acuity loss, according to a study presented at the Focus on Eye Health National Summit hosted by Prevent Blindness.
“Monitoring ... is an essential message we have to get to our patients,” Emily Y. Chew, MD, said at the meeting. “We are into a really important era where we really need to educate patients and make them understand they, too, are empowered to help themselves.”
Chew presented results of the AREDS2-HOME study, which compared
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