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Ophthalmologists, like all medical professionals, strive to base their practice on solid evidence. However, even in our field, certain beliefs have taken root more through tradition and repetition than through rigorous scientific scrutiny. Margolis and Galor published their editorial in which they debunked six myths related to the anterior segment.1 Their work motivated our critical thinking, […]

Anat Loewenstein, EURETINA 2020 – The Importance of Home Monitoring

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Published Online: Oct 6th 2020

It was a pleasure to catch up with our Editorial Board member, Prof. Anat Loewenstein (Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel), who talked to us about the importance of home monitoring in wet age-related macular degeneration.

  1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the management of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? (0:10)
  1. How can home monitoring of visual changes improve the monitoring of wet AMD? (02:36)
  2. Could you tell us a little about home optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology and its ease of use in elderly populations? (03:36)
  3. Could you give us an overview of the study of home OCT that you are leading? (04:37)
  4. What other promising  remote monitoring systems are emerging? (05:40)

Speaker Disclosure: Prof. Anat Loewenstein discloses the following: consultant for: Allergan, Bayer, Novartis, Notal – vision, Syneos health, beyeonics surgical, Roche, Pres-By, Xbran, WebMD, KHB, Oxurion.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media Ltd.

Filmed in coverage of EURETINA 2020.

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