瑞士制药巨头诺华(Novartis)近日宣布,美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)已批准新一代眼科药物Beovu(brolucizumab,又名RTH258),用于治疗湿性年龄相关性黄斑变性(wet-AMD,又名新生血管性AMD,nAMD)。值得一提的是,诺华使用了一张优先审评券(PRV)来加速Beovu的监管审查,将其审查周期由常规的10个月缩短至了6个月。 AMD是...
“Our study has shown clinically meaningful improvements in visual and anatomical parameters during 12 months of treatment, independently from the chosen imaging modality at baseline, strengthening therefore the role of OCT-A as a primary diagnostic tool,” the researchers wrote in their paper. “It ...
OCT angiography for the evaluation of wet AMDAhmed Darwish
CHICAGO — At the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit at AAO, Quinton Oswald, CEO of Notal Vision, discusses the company’s pursuit of an OCT home monitoring system for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, which would help specialist
1.1AMD Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause ofblindnessamong industrialized nations and a significant source of morbidity globally (Wong et al., 2014). The pathogenesis ofAMDis broadly divided into two pathways, “wet” and “dry.” Wet AMD (also known as exudative or neo...
Stem cell therapy may provide a safe and promising treatment for retinal diseases. Wet age-related macular degeneration (wet-AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in China. We developed a clinical-grade human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line, Q-CTS-hESC-2, under xeno-free conditions that di...
Macula totally dry-2bRetina drybRetina dry-2bRetinal fluid atrophy (none, extrafoveal, remote, subfoveal)RPE rip (none, outside,b remote,b subfoveal) AMD = age-related macular degeneration; BCVA = best-corrected visual acuity; CNV = choroidal neovascularization; PED = pigment epithelial defect;...
Purpose To retrospectively review the evolution of our patients managed with the OCT-assisted "wait and see" approach after intravitreal bevacizumab (IB) injection.Methods Charts of 46 consecutive patients affected by wet AMD that had received IB (1.25 mg) for recent CNV and completed ≥ 9-month...
HibbsS. P.SmithA.ChowL. P.DownesS. M.EYE -LONDON- OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM THEN ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS-
Although optical coherence tomography is widely used in the diagnosis and management of age-related macular degeneration, closer scrutiny of these scans may reveal useful new parameters, according to Florian M. Heussen, MD.Ophthalmology Times Staff ReportsSpectroscopy...