Lynda Charters

Although the standard of care remains the pharmaceutical option, surgeons would like to see other options for individualised treatment, including artificial intelligence and sustained-release technologies.

The contest will take place at EURETINA 2022 as part of World Retina Day on Saturday 3 September 2022 from 8.30am to 9.30am CEST in Hall X2/Channel 7.

One systematic review and meta-analysis finds bariatric surgery associated with fewer cases of diabetic retinopathy overall and of sight-threatening progression.

This year’s hybrid meeting will allow attendees to participate in person or virtually. Either way, this congress will offer a wealth of information to specialists covering all aspects of retinal diseases.

Moving past the eyes and into the brain: It is vital to think beyond the eye in the presence of visual impairment and blindness.

In a study, investigators found that no characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease are related to ocular manifestations of the disease.

Several issues may restimulate the virus in those patients with prior exposure.

84% of the patients who received a hybrid, acrylic IOL with a continuous transitional focus (CTF) optic to correct presbyopia were within 0.5 D of emmetropia.

While the surgeons reported that the BW filter provided higher contrast during nucleus and viscous removal and posterior capsular polishing, they subjectively reported no significant advantage of using a BW filter.

No effect when used with orthokeratology lenses for 2 years.

The 40th annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Retina Specialists is scheduled for July 13-16, 2022, in New York City, New York, United States.

The lower energy applications and slower sweep speeds offer marked IOP reductions in patients.

Data shows improvement after eye muscle surgery for lower spatial frequencies.

Minute movements are related to patching treatment outcomes in patients.

Each new generation of cyclophotocoagulation options results in more accurate visualisation of the ciliary processes, greater ease of use and fewer complications.

Physicians offer pearls for improving visualisation in eyes using retroillumination techniques.

Polarisation-sensitive optical coherence tomography has facilitated early diagnosis of disease before it becomes apparent on topography.

An ischaemia modulator has demonstrated it is safe and well tolerated in a Phase 1/2a trial in diabetic macular ischaemia patients.

Dr Eva Chamorro points out that myopia control spectacle lenses affect the diurnal rhythms in the AL in young adult human and produced a small short-term increase in the AL that varies in intensity and time interval for each of the 3 studied lenses.

Investigators from the Karolinska Institutet and St. Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, reported that they have developed a prognostic test, referred to as serUM, that they believe is a strong predictor of metastasis of uveal melanoma.

THR-687 is currently being evaluated in a phase 2 clinical trial in patients with DME. The first data from the dose-optimization study is expected to be released in the first half of 2022.

The study found no association between treatment and the risk of chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease.

In a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting, Dr Osama Ibrahim Hirayama and colleagues offered results that demonstrating that anisometropia and astigmatic error were greater among the patients with high myopia compared with the other groups. Compared with the subjects with no myopia, those with high myopia reported significantly more dryness, less photophobia, and less pain.

During a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting, Dr Yuichi Hori and colleagues found that taping the top border of a surgical mask to a clinicians’ skin reduces the potential for ocular surface damage resulting from expirations of air reaching the ocular surface during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The axitinib intravitreal implant (OTX-TKI) is being evaluated to treat wet age-related macular degeneration in a phase 1b clinical trial.

Investigators from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine presented data at the ARVO 2022 annual meeting that concluded mapping of the relative cerebrovascular reactivity in the murine brain showed widespread brain changes resulting from the chronic IOP elevation and demonstrates vascular involvement in glaucoma both within and beyond the primary visual pathways.

In a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Denver, Dr Mamoru Ogawa noted that investigators have found that the choroidal and central corneal thicknesses increased over a very short period of time following intensive outdoor activity.

Authors of a retrospective study into complications associated with iris implants advise that the procedure should be considered as malpractice.

In one study of children with solitary unilateral retinoblastoma, the youngest children were found to have the greatest risk for a germline mutation.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have stimulated the retinas of blind mice using focused ultrasound technology.