Leukocoria (white pupil) is the most common symptom of retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that affects only children under age 5.
Read MoreCorneal Epithelial Thickness Mapping May Change Patients’ Eligibility for Refractive Surgery
Researchers find that using corneal epithelial thickness mapping changed some patients’ eligibility for refractive surgery. Their study reports that 11% of those originally deemed ineligible for LASIK are now candidates.
Home Tonometry Reveals Pressure Spikes Not Detected at Office Visits
Glaucoma specialist Shalini Sood-Mendiratta, MD, has begun lending home tonometry units to her patients. At-home monitoring can reveal pressure fluctuations not evident at office visits.
Choroidal Nevus or Melanoma? Machine Learning-Based Model May Help Improve Diagnosis
A novel machine learning-based model may help improve the diagnosis of small choroidal melanoma. The model can distinguish between a small melanoma and benign choroidal nevus with 86% accuracy.
More Precise than Vitreous Haze: Common Imaging Modalities Can Help Quantify Inflammation in Uveitis
Optical coherence tomography and widefield fluorescein angiography can be used to quantify inflammation in uveitis. Cole Eye Institute has developed software that automatically grades the amount of inflammation on a continuous scale, allowing for more precise assessment of disease.
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Pair of NIH Grants to Probe Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis on Two Fronts
One of our neuroscientists is investigating a potential link between the circadian cycle and remyelination as well as exploring the molecular basis of thalamic volume atrophy.
One Step Closer to a Drug Preventing Retinopathy of Prematurity
A new grant brings Cole Eye Institute’s Jonathan Sears, MD, one step closer to developing a novel, liver-targeting drug to protect preterm infants from ROP, among other conditions.
Cone Dystrophy, Macular Degeneration or Optic Nerve Disorder? Visual Electrophysiology Helps Make the Diagnosis
When clinical findings, imaging results and genetic testing are contradictory or inconclusive, electroretinography and visual evoked potential tests can help diagnose eye disease.
Gene Therapy Surgery: Potential Next Frontier in Geographic Atrophy
Studies are exploring whether a single subretinal injection can provide effective treatment for patients with geographic atrophy, the late form of dry age-related macular degeneration.
Orbital Fungal Infection: Complex Case Exhibits Keys to Diagnosis and Treatment
An 86-year-old man presented with unexplained right-sided headache and vision loss. Workup evaluating for giant cell arteritis, orbital apex syndrome and other conditions eventually leads to the diagnosis of orbital fungal infection.
Effect of New Therapy Lasts Longer for Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Faricimab, a new drug for nAMD, offers patients similar benefits at 16-week intervals as aflibercept at eight-week intervals, a study shows.