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The annual Hawaiian Eye Conference looked at  the new developments in optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology, including angiography, swept source, wide-field and en face OCT. current trends in pharmacotherapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), including diagnostic evaluation, agent choice and various dosing regimens.  the new and investigational treatment schemes for wet AMD, including the…

  Mediterranean diet may protect against late AMD Investigators examined a year’s worth of dietary data on 4,753 people from 7 European countries. Using the previously published Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS), the authors showed that participants in the highest MDS category had a 20% reduced risk of developing late AMD (P=0.05). No link emerged between…

      Most patients in the maintenance phase of a treat-and-extend regimen for AMD continue to require treatment approximately every 8 weeks, according to this analysis of data from a large international voluntary registry of neovascular AMD. While there is little debate about the best approach to the induction phase of a treatment treat-and-extend…