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AGTC reported $11.1 million in total revenue in the third quarter compared with $705,000 in the same quarter of 2014, according to a press release. The increase was attributed to revenue from nonrefundable upfront fees that the company received from it…

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September’s announcement by Carl Zeiss Meditec that its AngioPlex OCT angiography technology had received 510(k) clearance from the FDA set the stage for other systems to likely also soon become commercialized in the U.S. The technology allows extreme close-up imaging of the retinal vasculature for assessing retinal vascular diseases and holds potential for guiding treatment decisions and monitoring patient responses to therapy.“Over the past 20 years, OCT has developed rapidly as a ‘noninvasive’ method of imaging for medical diagnosis and defining activity criteria, such as intra/subretinal fluid, hyper-reflective dots and dense intraretinal areas,” Gabriel J. Coscas, MD, emeritus professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris XII in Créteil, France, said. But over the past 2 years, it was found that additional information useful for treatment decisions can now be gained with OCT angiography (OCTA).

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LAS VEGAS — At the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting, Priya Narang, MS, explains a new technique for performing peripheral iridectomy for eyes undergoing glued IOL surgery, specifically for eyes with large white-to white diameters.

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