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A 29-year-old obese white woman with a known history of idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or IIH, presented to the New England Eye Center with 1 month of progressively decreasing vision in her right eye and positional headaches. She was diagnosed w…

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Lampalizumab may offer hope for people affected by atrophic age-related macular degeneration. Phase 3 trials are ongoing, and research is focusing on identifying patients who may better respond to the treatment.“We should be grateful for every small step forward, as atrophic AMD is the most difficult form of the disease. In wet AMD we treat to destroy something abnormal, while here we are trying to move forward the internal clock of cells that are programmed to die, which is an infinitely greater challenge,” Jordi Monés, MD, PhD, said in an interview with Ocular Surgery News.

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Continuous monitoring of mean ocular perfusion pressure during pars plana vitrectomy may prevent surgically induced visual field defect, a surgeon told colleagues at the FLOREtina meeting in Florence, Italy.“Unexplained visual field loss after vitrectomy has been reported in up to 14% of patients,” Tommaso Rossi, MD, said.

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