ORLANDO — Ophthalmologists must take measures to avoid misdiagnosing age-related macular degeneration and consider mimics of the disease, according to a speaker at Telling It Like It Is.
“Sometimes, if you’re in a busy clinic, it can be really difficult to establish if a patient has AMD or not, and sometimes they have AMD and another macular condition,” Jaclyn L. Kovach, MD, FASRS, of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, said. “But you really want to work hard to try to establish their diagnosis because you don’t want to miss a treatable (Read more...)