AAO Highlights

Paul Mitchell, AAO 2018 – Age-related Macular Degeneration and the ARIES Study

The ARIES trial compares an early versus a late start for a treat-and-extend (T&E) regimen, an increasingly popular approach to treatment worldwide, for wet or neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Professor Paul Mitchell gives an overview of the study, and discusses wet AMD and the differences to dry AMD, the specifics and benefits of the […]

Diabetic Macular Oedema, Retina/Vitreous

Jean-François Korobelnik, AAO 2018 – Aflibercept and the APOLLON Study

Professor Jean-François Korobelnik joins us to discuss aflibercept and its effectiveness as a widely used and well-tolerated anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor. He also briefly describes the APOLLON study, looking at the real-life treatment, monitoring and outcomes of treatment in patients with diabetic macular edema in routine clinical practice. Questions: 1. What advantages does […]

Retina/Vitreous

Christine Kay, AAO 2018 – Updates on Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy

touchOPTHALMOLOGY spoke to Christine Kay at AAO 2018 regarding her long-running course titled ‘Retinal Frontiers: Updates in Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy’, as well as her most exciting advances and trials in gene and stem cell therapy and her key highlights from this year’s meeting. Questions: 1. Please tell us about your course at […]

Cataract Surgery, Refractive Surgery

David Chang, AAO 2018 – Updated Guidelines for Cleaning Ophthalmic Tools

Professor David F Chang met up with us at this year’s AAO meeting to discuss the recent increase in scrutiny in the US into operating room protocols and practices, and the response to form a task force from three societies – the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), the American Academy of Ophthalmology […]

Uveitis and Ocular Immunology

Alay Banker, AAO 2018 – Developments in the treatment of uveitis

In the touchOPHTHALMOLOGY Fall issue of US Ophthalmic Review, Dr Alay Banker published an interesting review on “Emerging Treatments for Non-infectious Uveitis”. In this interview at AAO 2018, he discusses the side effects associated with steroidal treatments and how this impacts patient adherence. It is hoped that emerging non-steroidal drugs can alleviate some of these […]

Imaging, Macular Degeneration, Retina/Vitreous

Roberto Gallego-Pinazo, AAO 2018 – Imaging modalities for neovascular AMD

The advent of new imaging modalities has greatly aided the understanding of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Dr Roberto Gallego-Pinazo claims that much of this progress can be attributed to structural optical coherence tomography (OCT). In this interview, filmed at AAO 2018, Dr Gallego-Pinazo discusses the importance of structural OCT and other types of imaging […]

Anterior Segment, Corneal Disorders

Deepinder Dhaliwal, AAO 2018 – DMEK and DWEK for Fuchs’ Dystrophy

In an expert interview filmed at AAO 2018, Dr Deepinder Dhaliwal discusses the difference between Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) and descemetorhexis without endothelial keratoplasty (DWEK) for the treatment of Fuchs’ dystrophy. Dr Dhaliwal explains that in her recent study, corneal oedema was shown to clear on its own, in approximately 7 weeks, after a […]

Anterior Segment, Corneal Disorders, Ocular Surface Disease

Eduardo C Alfonso, AAO 2018 – Key messages from AAO 2018

At this year’s AAO meeting, we met up with Dr Eduardo Alfonso and got his insight on the hot topics being discussed at the congress. Dr Alfonso highlights some of the key messages from the session he chaired, including the diagnosis and treatment of infectious keratitis, and how molecular diagnostic methods can be used to […]

Anterior Segment, Corneal Disorders

Bennie Jeng, AAO 2018 – The Use of Corticosteroids in Adenoviral Conjunctivitis

Adenoviral conjunctivitis is a common condition that is aggressively contagious, and therefore, requires early diagnosis. Often the best course of action is to let the infection run its course; however, some possible treatments are currently being investigated. One of these is a combination of dexamethasone and povidone-iodine, which is hoped will remove the infection quicker […]

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