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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In eyes with severe injury, even when there is no light perception vision, there is no justification for primary enucleation.“Unless the eye is completely destroyed, surgeons should never give up,” Ferenc Kuhn, MD, PhD, said at the Retina World Congress.
SAN DIEGO — Though patients with inflammatory bowel disease have impaired humoral response after SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations, cellular responses were maintained and comparable to those of health care workers, according to study results. “We believe that the results of our study are overall reassuring and provide mechanistic explanation for the lack of higher COVID complications in our
The FDA has granted priority review to Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s new drug application for omaveloxolone to treat patients with Friedreich’s ataxia. According to a company press release, the NDA is supported by positive safety and efficacy data from the MOXIe part 2 trial as well as supporting data from MOXIe part 1 and MOXIe extension trials.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Epiretinal membranes, or ERMs, in retinal vein occlusion do not share the same OCT angiography characteristics described for idiopathic ERMs but instead reflect the changes typical of vascular pathologies.A study presented at the Retina World Congress looked for the first time at these specific features.
Seizure- and epilepsy-related emergency department visits decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-pandemic levels, with the largest drop seen among young children, per a study in MMWR. “Seizures generally account for approximately 1% of all emergency department visits,” Sanjeeb Sapkota, MBBS, MPH, of the Center for Global Health at the CDC, and colleagues wrote.