VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Statins show promise as a low-risk disease-modifying agent for treating thyroid eye disease, for which smoking is seen as the only modifiable risk factor. A hyperosmotic shift of fluid into orbital tissue is associated with thyroid eye disease, and the resultant inflammatory state can last for 1 to 2 years, Andrew L. Reynolds, MD, said at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigator has found that increased expression of the angiogenic factor VEGF-A promotes three common aging-related eye conditions – both versions of…
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Condition Summary: Retinitis Pigmentosa; Retinal Diseases; Eye Diseases; Eye Disease, Hereditary; Retinal Degeneration
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Condition Summary: Retinal Degeneration; ABCA4-Related Retinopathies
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Like in other ophthalmic specialties, a significant amount of the pediatric ophthalmologist’s time is spent documenting in electronic health records, perhaps detrimentally so, according to a study presented here.“There’s been a lot of anecdotal and some published evidence showing that there may be a negative impact of EHRs on efficiency by ophthalmologists,” Michael F. Chiang, MD, said at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting.
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the back of the eye following implantation of a keratoprosthesis (KPro) — similar to what glaucoma patients experience, without the rise of pressure in the eye — and have shown that blocking one of those factors, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa), successfully halts the development of optic nerve damage in a mouse model.