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Innovations in the design of rigid corneal lenses and scleral lenses have delayed the use of or eliminated the need for keratoplasty.

Investigators advise an ophthalmologic evaluation at the time of tumour diagnosis to detect early vision loss.

New visually-guided hearing aid uses eye gaze to focus amplification of sound signals from the direction of the user’s attention.

A combination of posters, podium presentations and instructional courses provided invaluable revelations to the ophthalmic community.

Companies are exploring light-sensitive proteins method in patients with advanced disease.

The data analysis showed that the macular thickness decreased across all time periods and in all macular regions for all terciles.

Patients with a unilateral rhegmatogenous retinal detachment frequently ask about the risk of developing an RRD in their fellow eye.

Those who used both traditional and electronic cigarettes reported severe to very severe ophthalmic symptoms.

The AVONELLE-X long-term extension study will continue to evaluate the efficacy, durability and safety of faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD.

The results also showed that, compared to use of systemic antivirals alone, treatment with adjunctive intravitreal injections or early pars plana vitrectomy did not affect the time to development of retinal detachments.

Robot-assisted surgical precision offers less than 5-µm precision tremor stabilization, 1 to 10-mN force-sensing smart instrumentation and automated procedure-specific guidance and assistance with analytics.

Almost 5 million patients in the IRIS Registry had received at least one diagnosis of DED between 2013 and 2019; of those, 203,171 were children under 18 years of age and 4,592,808 were adults.

13% of pediatric patients had new-onset strabismus after a tube shunt procedure; in contrast, 0% of adults had new-onset strabismus after tube shunt surgery (at 6 months or at last follow-up).

Following the lockdown due to COVID-19, investigators highlight the need to re-assess policies on patient follow-up and establish new approaches to provision of care for elderly patients.

The epithelium adapts to compensate for changes in the cornea and these changes can be detected with high sensitivity, reducing both false positives and false negatives in the diagnosis of keratoconus.

According to one study, when genetic testing is coupled with advanced imaging, the chances of identifying keratoconus early are greater.

According to Nicox SA, the patients made their final 3-month visit last week. Top line results of the trial are expected in November.

Ophthalmologists should look past the eyes in patients presenting with a persistent ocular allergic response and be mindful that sight-threatening vernal keratoconjunctivitis is a possibility.

Roche’s treatment of faricimab is the first and only FDA-approved medicine targeting two distinct pathways, angiopoietin (Ang)-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A, that often cause retinal diseases that may cause visual loss.

Members of the Ophthalmology Times Europe Editorial Advisory Board offer comments on the symposia they are most excited to attend at the 2022 ESCRS Congress in Milan, Italy.

Spanish investigators hypothesise that conjunctivitis plays a role in disease transmission.

In “modified monovision”, which can be achieved with a new IOL, one eye predominantly manages distance vision and the other near vision—as with standard monovision—but the extended depth of field provides a degree of intermediate vision that is independent of spectacles.

Taking place from 16–20 September 2022, and following the success of last year’s congress, the 40th ESCRS will again be a face-to-face event but supported by a virtual conferencing platform that will allow the sessions to also be streamed.

Data highlights need for educational materials and training resources in DMO and DR.

12-week interim results of BEHOLD, a proof-of-concept Phase 2a study investigating the candidate UBX1325, provides a positive outlook for a novel senolytic approach for previously-treated patients with diabetic macular oedema.

Symptoms of acute optic neuritis resulting from the disease can resolve in treated rapidly.

Eyecare specialists benefit from being able to monitor their patients long term for optimised and personalised treatment regimens, as well as having access to a more efficient workflow and one which enables them to see more patients.

According to Dr Gregor S. Reiter, the results from the multicentre Phase 3 clinical trial demonstrated that fluid volumes in patients with nAMD can be precisely identified, localised and measured in real-time using artificial intelligence.

Automated quantitative fluid analyses are enabling personalised treatments, better patient outcomes.

Recent identification of the BCO2 gene and the Aster-B transport protein gives insight into carotenoid distribution in the retina.