Publications by authors named "Harit Bhatt"
Introduction: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has emerged as a safe and cost-effective alternative to traditional ophthalmology clinic visits. This study evaluated patient attitudes towards telemedicine at a full-service, retina-only practice to identify areas for growth in implementation.
Methods: A survey was distributed to established patients at University Retina and Macula Associates following the completion of a telemedicine encounter in July 2021.
Purpose: To evaluate whether topical acrizanib (LHA510), a small-molecule vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitor, could suppress the need for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy over a 12-week period in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Design: A phase 2 multicenter randomized double-masked, vehicle-controlled proof-of-concept study.
Methods: Trial includes n = 90 patients with active choroidal neovascularization due to neovascular age-related macular degeneration and under anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment.
Purpose: To evaluate treatment-related preferences among patients receiving intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or diabetic macular edema (DME).
Patients And Methods: We conducted a prospective survey of patients with nAMD or DME treated at one of three US-based retina clinics. Prior to survey development, small focus groups with anti-VEGF-treated patients identified five treatment-related "attributes" considered important to those with nAMD or DME: vision outcomes, cost to the insurance provider, cost to the patient, frequency of treatment, and drug label status.
Purpose: To describe three unusual clinical cases of patients who were diagnosed with multiple evanescent white dot syndrome at the onset of their disease but lacked the characteristic white dots on clinical examination, autofluorescence, and angiographic testing at any time during their follow-up.
Methods: Three eyes of three patients with clinical symptoms of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome seen at an academic clinical practice were included. Retinal imaging, including fluorescein angiography, indocyanine green imaging, fundus autofluorescence, and optical coherence tomography, was used to further characterize and describe the clinical findings.
Purpose: To describe a patient with pressure alopecia following vitreoretinal surgery.
Design: Case report.
Methods: An 11-year-old boy underwent vitreoretinal surgery for left retinal detachment.