1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (381+ words) Review of Optometry When selecting patient-reported outcome measures for randomized controlled trials for AMD, it's important to select tools that align with the target population and the functional domains that are most likely to change For example, patient populations with…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (329+ words) Review of Optometry This analysis of a large database found a 21% higher mortality rate among individuals with self-reported visual impairment Click image to enlarge While visual impairment has been linked to higher mortality in older adults, previous research has suggested…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (356+ words) Review of Optometry Migraines are believed to be associated with an increased risk of glaucoma development due to shared systemic vasculopathy and endothelial dysfunction, as migraines often lead to symptoms including these two traits; however, contrary research speculates that the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (369+ words) Review of Optometry While this study reports that people with OSA have a 43% higher risk of developing AMD, the authors found little to no association between insomnia or sleep duration and macular degeneration They concluded that more research is needed…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (153+ words) Sensitivity analyses requiring additional instances of medication exposure (odds ratio; OR: 3. 67) or controlling for other indications of immunosuppressive therapy (OR: 1. 70) showed consistent results. Excluding all recipients of solid organ transplant resulted in no significant association with OSSN (OR: 1. 31). "Although we…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (310+ words) Review of Optometry Lumvoa is the first approved product for TED to show a statistically significant effect with both diplopia response and complete resolution of diplopia in active and chronic disease Thyroid eye disease (TED) has the potential to be…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (258+ words) Ptosis incidence also varied by surgery type; no significant MRD-1 reduction occurred after "TLO'a MIGS procedure'while significant MRD-1 declines were seen after all three filtration surgeries (Preser Flo Micro Shunt, trabeculectomy and Ahmed glaucoma valve). On regression analysis, the Ahmed…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (264+ words) Review of Optometry Patients with active thyroid eye disease exhibit more pronounced changes in the choroid than the retina Variation in choroidal vessels was found to be a more significant indicator of disease activity than vessel thickness Click image to…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (190+ words) Review of Optometry Recent study links hemoglobin levels with DME risk and anti-VEGF use across both sexes, and finds a mitigating effect from iron supplementation Collectively, these findings suggest that reduced hemoglobin concentration represents an independent systemic determinant of DME…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (178+ words) However, the researchers noted in their paper, which was published in American Journal of Ophthalmology, incomplete Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) data in the sample "limits definitive conclusions regarding symptom burden." They also advised that routine fluorescein staining may be…...