Andrew Lee, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, Julie Rosenthal, MD, of the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, review special considerations and recent research on retinal care during pregnancy.
A study suggests anomaly detectors not trained with diseased retina can detect diabetic retinopathy.
The anti-VEGF drugs effectively induce disease regression, the report shows.
Patients with an etiology of retinal vein occlusion have worse visual acuity 1 year after treatment with a drainage device than patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the current evidence is insufficient for assessing the benefits and harms of type 2 diabetes screening in children and adolescents (I statement).
Is it an ophthalmologist’s job to advise patients with diabetes on lifestyle choices, such as diet? Ophthalmologists Kristen Nwanyanwu, MD, Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, and Abdhish Bhavsar, MD, say it is, and suggest that saving vision may require putting patients in touch with a nutritionist.
Of the study’s 200 participants, mean ECD was lowest in patients with diabetes who smoked.
Earlier treatment with aflibercept improved outcomes in diabetic macular edema.
Researchers developed an artificial-intelligence derived vascular severity score to aid in the diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity.
The complications were most commonly seen in patients taking ipilimumab.
