[Telemedicine monitoring for AMD patients].

Introduction: AMD follow-up is a public health issue in developed countries due to aging of the population and medical demographics. Telemedicine may be a means of improving follow-up.

Purpose: To compare the agreement between telemedicine and in-person consultations in terms of indications for intravitreal injections in exudative AMD patients.

Detection of mild papilloedema in posterior uveitis using spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

Objective: To compare two methods for diagnosing mild papilloedema (PO) using peripapillary total retinal (PTR) and retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness measurement by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients suffering from posterior uveitis.

Methods: 17 eyes in 17 patients with PO caused by posterior uveitis, 15 eyes in 15 patients with uveitis but with no PO based on slit lamp analysis were studied. High-quality OCT fundus images were analysed and graded by three masked observers using the Modified Frisén Scale.

[Application of gene therapy to oncologic ophthalmology].

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Watson and Crick, our understanding of the genetic causes and the regulations involved in tumor development have hugely increased. The important amount of research developed since then has led to the development of gene therapy, which specifically targets and treats cancer cells by interacting with, and correcting their genetic material. This study is a review of the most accomplished research using gene therapy aimed at treating malignant ophthalmologic diseases, and focuses more specifically on uveal melanoma and retinoblastoma.