News from The American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Study finds an increased risk of ophthalmologic diagnoses in children with autism spectrum disorderIn this population-based analysis, investigators evaluated ophthalmologic disorders associated with autism spectrum disorder.
- Strategies for improving outcomes in strabismus surgery related to TEDThe authors investigated whether initial postoperative angle of deviation impacts surgical outcomes in patients with thyroid eye disease (TED).
- Vitamin D supplementation linked to decreased uveitis activityThe authors examined patterns of serum vitamin D levels among people with active and inactive noninfectious uveitis.
- Week in review: COVID damage, antibody drops, GA therapyThis week, MRI evaluations reveal globe abnormalities in patients with COVID-19, a new antibody-based drop for dry eye wins $10 million in grant support and a gene therapy for geographic atrophy shines in clinical trials.
- Can you get COVID-19 from asymptomatic carriers?The authors of this study evaluated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from individuals with no symptoms.
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated ON appears to differ from typical ONThis retrospective case series describes 11 patients optic neuritis (ON) associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
- Ebola virus linked to a distinct spectrum of ocular and neuro-ophthalmologic findingsThis cross-sectional study assessed ophthalmic features specific to Ebola virus disease.
- Week in review: Myopia control, remote care, maculopathy culpritThis week, a wearable prototype for myopia control, how ophthalmology stacks up against other specialties in using telemedicine during the pandemic and a patient experiences maculopathy after undergoing FGFR inhibitor therapy.
- Refractive lens exchange with a trifocal IOL in emmetropic presbyopia patientsInvestigators compared outcomes between unilateral and bilateral trifocal diffractive IOL implantation in emmetropic patients with presbyopia.
- Smartphone-based fundus imaging can successfully screen for DRThis is the first study to directly compare 4 different approaches for smartphone-based fundus imaging for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening.