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VIDEO: Strategies for managing the tearing patient
WAILEA, Hawaii – George B. Bartley, MD, discusses his presentation on strategies for managing the tearing patient at Hawaiian Eye 2015.
Russian research team explores vision complications for astronauts
An international partnership between Florida State University and a team from the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that space travel may severely impair the body’s ability to regulate blood…
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Elderly woman with prominent temporal arteries referred for sudden painless vision loss
An 88-year-old woman was referred urgently by rheumatology to our neuro-ophthalmology clinic due to “going blind” in her left eye starting 3 weeks before presentation in the setting of very prominent temporal arteries. She reported that her vision loss was sudden and painless and that it did not fluctuate after the initial drastic decline. She denied any prior transient vision loss, diplopia, other visual disturbances or trauma. She denied any associated headaches, fevers, chills, night sweats, jaw claudication, scalp tenderness or proximal muscle weakness. She denied any visual disturbances in (Read more...)
Omega-3 could supplement anti-VEGF treatment in AMD
Pilot study findings suggest that taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements could increase the efficacy or reduce the needed frequency of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration.
‘Earliest’ characteristics presaging drusen-associated atrophy identified
Researchers have used spectral-domain optical coherence tomography to identify specific pathological changes that precede the development of drusen-associated atrophy in patients with age-related macular degeneration.