Speaker: Minor surgeries may be effective in the treatment of ocular surface diseases

WAILEA, Hawaii — Office and minor surgical procedures may be effective in the treatment of patients with ocular surface diseases who do not respond to medical treatment, a speaker said here.“Ocular surface diseases are very common in clinical practice. Medical therapies are certainly first-line treatment and can be helpful,” Christopher J. Rapuano, MD, at the Hawaiian Eye 2015 meeting.

Home monitoring enables early detection of CNV in AMD patients

WAILEA, Hawaii – A home monitoring device increased the chances of identifying choroidal neovascularization early and preserving vision in patients with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study presented here.Neil M. Bressler, MD, discussed results of the AREDS2 Home Study at Retina 2015. Bressler substituted for Susan B. Bressler, MD, who was unable to attend.

ICG angiography clinically useful as ancillary test

WAILEA, Hawaii – Indocyanine green angiography as an ancillary retina test is relevant in 2015 as a limited part of multimodal imaging, a presenter said.“What we’ve learned from OCT is that our clinical impression is sometimes wrong, and having ancillary tests like angiography or OCT or fundus autofluorescence can confirm what we believe to be true is very helpful. They can rule out mimicking conditions and also give us a list of therapeutic options we can offer the patient,”Jay S. Duker, MD,said at Retina 2015. “What we’re really talking about (Read more...)