Retina

What does analysis of the last five years of literature on diabetic macular edema tell us about the priorities of the field and the major contributors to it?

Subcutaneously-administrated IL-18 works well to reverse choroidal neovascularization (in mice).

Evidence is stacking up that the configuration of the VMI alters the functional and anatomic efficacy of anti-VEGF drugs.

Advances in understanding of the therapeutic mechanisms that underpin micropulse laser treatment suggest that protocols for treatment of diabetic macular edema should be integrated.

Although baby boomers may be in a state of denial regarding their own aging, ophthalmologists know differently. In particular, four diseases of the ageing eye comprise a demographic and economic timebomb.

Previous studies linked aspirin use with age-related macular degeneration, but new data suggest otherwise: aspirin is innocent of all charges.

If you’re aged over 68 years, then statins significantly reduce your risk of developing AMD; it has no impact on younger age groups.

Mice that take exercise exhibit slower retinal degeneration than those that don’t. It could work for people too.

Can you envisage a future in which deploying a tiny cell-spraying device during vitreoretinal surgery reverses years of retinal cell death? Keith Martin can.

Sitting Down With Walter Wrobel, CEO/ President, and Reinhard Rubow, CFO, Retina Implant AG