Revolutionizing Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: Integrating AI-Based Retinal Imaging in Primary Care by Dean Beals, Lesley Simon, Faith Rogers, Stan Pogroszewski

“…However, despite strong recommendations for screening at regular intervals by many professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, screening rates remain suboptimal, with only 50–70% of patients with diabetes adhering to recommended annual eye exams. …”
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Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Annie M. Wu, Connie M. Wu, Benjamin K. Young, Dominic J. Wu, Curtis E. Margo, Paul B. Greenberg

“…AMD CPGs published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO) were appraised by independent reviewers using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument, which comprises six domains (Scope and Purpose, Stakeholder Involvement, Rigor of Development, Clarity of Presentation, Applicability, and Editorial Independence), and an Overall Assessment score summarizing methodological quality across all domains. …”
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Same-session dual chromophore riboflavin/UV-A and rose bengal/green light PACK-CXL in Acanthamoeba keratitis: a case report by Farhad Hafezi, Jürg Messerli, Emilio A. Torres-Netto, Nan-Ji Lu, M. Enes Aydemir, Nikki L. Hafezi, Mark Hillen

“…Case presentation A 44-year-old patient with active AK in the left cornea, unresponsive to 10 months of conventional treatment according to American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) guidelines, was treated using same-session sequential PACK-CXL with riboflavin/UV-A (365 nm) irradiation (10 J/cm2) and rose bengal/green light (522 nm) irradiation (5.4 J/cm2) in a single setting. …”
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Retrospective study of incidence/prevalence of pigmentary maculopathy and retinopathy in patients receiving pentosan polysulfate sodium. by Zhong Yuan, Subusola Vaughan, Carolyn Jeffcoat, Peter Hu, Ritchie Yuson, Daniel Fife, Durga Borkar

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This is a retrospective cohort study (January 2015-March 2021) which included adult de-identified patients from the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) and Komodo Health database. …”
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The prevalence of conjunctivitis in patients with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and preventive measures by I.R. Gazizova, Yu.A. Desheva, T.V. Gavrilova, V.A. Chereshnev

“…&nbsp;Vagner Perm State Medical University, Perm, Russian Federation</b> </p> <p> <b>³Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy </b><b>of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation</b> </p> <p> <i>According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, coronavirus infection can cause follicular conjunctivitis. …”
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How intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor initial dosing impacts patient outcomes in diabetic macular oedema by Rishi P. Singh, David Tabano, Blanche L. Kuo, Andrew LaPrise, Theodore Leng, Eunice Kim, Meghan Hatfield, Vincent Garmo

“…Methods This was a retrospective database study using American Academy of Ophthalmology Intelligent Research in Sight® Registry data (01/01/15–31/12/20; index period). …”
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