Around one percent of the UK population has rheumatoid arthritis, the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society states. The symptoms of the disease are not limited to the affected joints with the eyes being a tell-tale early warning. What to spot? A common eye-related symptom of arthritis is dryness. Dry eyes are prone to infection, and if untreated, severe […]
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — A study found that patients were less comfortable when receiving povidone-iodine as ocular antisepsis before an intravitreal injection compared with aqueous chlorhexidine, a speaker reported at Retina 2022. Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, co-director of retina research at Wills Eye Hospital, presented results of a prospective, double-armed interventional study that compared
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Universal mask use showed to be an effective prevention method for endophthalmitis during intravitreal injections, according to a speaker here at Hawaiian Eye 2022. Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, the co-director of retina research at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, said that intravitreal injections are the most common procedure performed by ophthalmologists.