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News Flashes IGR 23-2

With these findings, physicians will be aware of which clinical and OCT findings are most likely to cause artifact ‐ namely, larger drusen and geographic atrophy ‐ and that small drusen are not likely to impact inner macular thickness on OCT

Only about one third of the participants in this study were able to complete the investigation

Of the 757 home examinations performed, approximately 65% met the authors' reliability requirements, compared to 85% for clinical test result

If only 20 out of 74 subjects could clear the seemingly low bar of performing ten home tests and three clinical VFs over the course of a year, is there a future for home-based perimetry?

A third of the subjects analyzed in this study (1281 of 3985) did not have a second ocular examination after being diagnosed as having ANA (index date), in spite of being continuously enrolled in the database

This study strengthens previous observations that ab-externo implantation is non-inferior to the conventional ab-interno technique

Take home: when people are cared for in ways that help them care for themselves, apparent changes occur

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