SEATTLE — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Jennifer I. Lim, MD, discusses anti-VEGF therapy for the treatment of proliferative sickle cell retinopathy.
Lim and colleagues with the Anti-VEGF Versus Prompt Laser for Proliferative Sickle Cell Retinopathy (ALPS) group investigated 37 patients who received anti-VEGF therapy for proliferative sickle cell retinopathy, considered stage 3 or stage 4, along with concurrent or as-needed laser. The majority of patients had improvements in their visual acuity and anatomic outcomes.
“In patients with stage 3, almost every