11 Mar It's Not What You Look At, It's What You Look For
Knowing what to look for is essential to making a correct medical diagnosis. Retinal disease, such as ARMD and diabetes is easy to diagnose as we can also "see" the eye....
Knowing what to look for is essential to making a correct medical diagnosis. Retinal disease, such as ARMD and diabetes is easy to diagnose as we can also "see" the eye....
Neovascularization develops in both macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. It is the neovascular tissue, or abnormal blood vessels, that causes blindness and is mediated by VEGF....
Getting drugs into the inside of the eye is very hard. Intraocular injections have become an effective way to deliver medications to the inside of the eye and bypass the blood brain barrier to treat retinal disease....
Signs and symptoms of macular degeneration. Signs are what a doctor finds and symptoms are what a patient notices. Not all "drusen" are associated with disease....
Pan-retinal laser photocoagulation has been the gold-standard treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Avastin injections may become a safer, better alternative to retinal laser treatment to prevent blindness....
I had a patient with sudden loss of vision. He has diabetes and I diagnosed a vitreous hemorrhage. What are the causes and possible treatments?...
Actual case study from this morning. A patient presents with blood in the retina. What would you do?...
Retinal surgeons treat lots of trauma. Eye trauma can happen with even the simplest of toys. Even "safe" toys can be potentially blinding. These are a few of my patients who have been blinded by "toys."...
Avastin, Lucentis and Macugen are effective treatments for wet macular degeneration. I prefer to using Avastin and begin treatment with a series of 3 injections. Other retina specialists practice similarly....
Macugen (pegaptanib) was the first anti-VEGF intraocular injection for the treatment of wet macular degeneration. How it works and a review of this novel retinal treatment for macular degeneration....