NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York Retina, Nicholas Mahoney, MD, discusses thyroid eye disease.Mahoney said thyroid eye disease is an orbital inflammatory disorder, and a few other conditions mimic its effect on patients, including infec…
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Aviceda raises $207.5 million in Series C funding to advance geographic atrophy program
Aviceda Therapeutics secured $207.5 million in Series C financing to advance the AVD-104 program in geographic atrophy, according to a press release.Omega Funds and TCGX led the financing round. Contributors included Enavate Sciences, Jeito Capital, Bl…
VIDEO: Real-world faricimab data consistent with clinical trials
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York Retina, Ferhina S. Ali, MD, MPH, discusses how real-world experience with new anti-VEGF therapies is measuring up to what was seen in clinical trials.She said real-world outcomes are generally poorer th…
OCS-05 meets safety, efficacy endpoints in acute optic neuritis trial
OCS-05 met safety and efficacy endpoints in the treatment of acute optic neuritis in a phase 2 trial, according to a press release from Oculis.“While the high-dose steroids used today can shorten the acute inflammatory process, there remains an unmet m…
VIDEO: Financial wellness for ophthalmologists: Best practices for saving, investing
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Andrew Taylor, CFP, shares tips for ophthalmologists looking to achieve financial well-being before retirement.Taylor breaks down the specifics on how much money physicians should have saved for retire…
VIDEO: Multimodal imaging key to manage macular holes in children
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York Retina, Philip J. Ferrone, MD, of Vitreoretinal Consultants of NY, tackles the challenges of managing macular holes in pediatric patients.According to Ferrone, two common causes of macular holes in chil…
VIDEO: Nontraditional techniques may offer advantages in managing eyelid malposition
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Pete Setabutr, MD, of University of Illinois, Chicago, highlights nontraditional techniques to manage eyelid malposition.Setabutr focused on tarsal ectropion, lower eyelid retraction and lower eyelid m…
VIDEO: Not all approaches for diabetic tractional retinal detachment are the same
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, shares tips for managing diabetic tractional retinal detachment.Skondra discussed the important role of cataract management in cases of diabetic …
Cencora acquires Retina Consultants of America
Cencora completed its acquisition of Retina Consultants of America, according to a press release.At closing, Cencora’s cash outlay was $4.4 billion, including transaction fees and expenses, the repayment of debt and the equity rollover with Retina Cons…
Treatment of epithelial defects can be an involved process
Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.The approval and commercialization of Oxervate (cenegermin-bkbj, Dompé) in the United States has improved our ability to treat corneal persistent epithelial defect…
Nine pearls for making better practice business decisions
“Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that’s something we need to change.” – Noreena Hertz“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blami…
New staging system may improve management of neurotrophic keratitis
The staging system used for neurotrophic keratopathy, or NK, is the Mackie classification from 1995 with recent modifications by Dua, which clusters a number of distinct and sometimes nonsequential phases of NK into three broad categories.This system r…
Neurotrophic keratitis more prevalent than previously thought
Neurotrophic keratitis is historically a rare disease, but now that more understanding has been gained of the underlying etiology and manifestations, its prevalence is starting to increase, and more cases are seen in clinics.“We are diagnosing it a lot…
Man experiences bilateral proptosis, ophthalmoplegia after trauma
A 48-year-old man presented to the Lahey Eye Clinic as a new patient for care after recent head trauma while he was in another state.He was experiencing constant headaches, he felt his eyes looked “swollen and infected,” and vision was poor in the righ…
Glued IOL with trifold technique: An iris repair method for large nonappositional defects
Iris repair surgeries have been widely described in the literature.The major difficulty faced during the surgical learning is the skill of delicately handling sutures with thin iris tissue. With numerous techniques available, the surgeon is left with d…
Emerging technologies on the horizon for corneal diseases
Innovations within the cornea realm are flourishing. In this article, I review emerging technologies to treat corneal diseases.James Funderburgh, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh discovered stem cells in the corneal stroma in an effort to use these…
VIDEO: Intracameral bimatoprost implant for glaucoma: Dos and don’ts
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD, shares pearls for effective use of the Durysta implant for treating glaucoma.Radcliffe demonstrates how to find the right angle of implantation for Durysta (bimatoprost intraca…
VIDEO: Stable topography key for effective IOL exchange
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Nicole R. Fram, MD, Healio | OSN Associate Medical Editor, shares pearls for performing effective IOL exchanges.“Now that we have patients that are unhappy because of dysphotopsia and other issues, if …
VIDEO: Avoid capsulorhexis runout when removing intumescent white cataracts
NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Uday Devgan, MD, of Devgan Eye Surgery, uses surgical footage to demonstrate how to resolve difficult cases of intumescent white cataracts.In addition to sharing pearls for improving surgical technique…
VIDEO: AI’s role in geographic atrophy treatment continues to grow
CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Sharon Bakalash, MD, PhD, CBA, of Astellas Ophthalmics, discusses the company’s pipeline for geographic atrophy as well as AI’s growing role in treating the condition.At the meeting, Ast…