VIENNA, Austria — Administration of a neuroprotective agent in eye drops may help prevent diabetic retinopathy from developing or progressing, according to one specialist. “The rationale of our approach is that, at the very early stages of DR, neurodegeneration does exist and is more evident than early microvascular impairment,” Rafael Simό, MD, said at the Advanced Retinal Therapy meeting here.
Many UK drivers shouldn’t be on the road as they don’t meet new EU vision standards, according to research by Anglia Ruskin University.
Long-sightedness caused by age could be due to proteins in the lens of the eye that are converted from a fluid solution to a solid, glassy state.
NEW YORK — At OSN New York, Thomas John, MD, discusses the decision-making process of whether to do cataract alone, cataract plus endothelial keratoplasty, as a triple procedure or as a stage procedure when dealing with patients who have both Fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy and clouding of the lens.
An intravitreal dose of ranibizumab for treatment of age-related macular degeneration is small, but it can affect systemic vasculature, according to one study author.“Many ophthalmologists do not realize the possible increase in the systemic vascular risks by injecting ranibizumab for AMD. I assume this is because the frequency of [cerebrovascular accidents] and other systemic vascular adverse events is low — usually up to several percentages of AMD patients per year,” Takashi Ueta, MD, PhD, principal investigator, told Ocular Surgery News. “However, our meta-analysis, by including data for more than 6,500 (Read more...)
More than 3 million Americans undergo cataract surgery each year, with more than half of them older than 65 years. Cataract surgery as we know it today is one of the safest and most commonly performed surgeries in the United States. The challenges face…