Publications by authors named "Jerome Schartman"
Objective: Retrospective, real-world study to evaluate visual acuity (VA), anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injection intervals, and central macular thickness (CMT) in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) eyes switched to brolucizumab only or to brolucizumab alternating with another anti-VEGF.
Methods: The overall study population comprised eyes that were given ≥1 brolucizumab injection between 1 October 2019 and 30 November 2021. The brolucizumab-only (BRO) cohort consisted of prior anti-VEGF-treated eyes treated exclusively with ≥3 brolucizumab injections over ≥12 or ≥18 months; the alternating brolucizumab (ALT) cohort comprised prior anti-VEGF-treated eyes treated with ≥2 brolucizumab injections and ≥1 other anti-VEGF over ≥12 or ≥18 months.
Objective: This study evaluated changes in best-corrected visual acuity and submacular hemorrhage (SMH) resolution in eyes after a single rapid subretinal displacement surgery using subretinal balanced saline solution and sterile air without tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).
Design: A retrospective comparative interventional analysis.
Participants: Twenty-six eyes with thick SMH who underwent pars plana vitrectomy and subretinal fluid displacement without tPA from 2015 and 2021 and at least 1-year of follow-up.
Background: The anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injection interval influences treatment burden and compliance in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). This real-world study investigates visual acuity (VA), injection-interval extension, central macular thickness (CMT) and safety in nAMD eyes switched to the anti-VEGF agent brolucizumab and followed for up to 18 months.
Methods: This retrospective study included patients with nAMD who were switched from other anti-VEGF agents to brolucizumab only.
Frequency and Symptoms of Intravitreal Silicone Oil Droplets Following Becton Dickinson and Norm-Ject Bevacizumab Injections.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
February 2022
Background And Objective: To determine silicone oil droplet frequency and symptomatic impact in patients injected with Norm-Ject (NJ) and/or Becton Dickinson (BD) intravitreal bevacizumab.
Patients And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of 426 patients with prior bevacizumab injection(s). Symptomatic floaters questionnaire responses were compiled and statistical analysis was performed using Fisher's exact t test with 95% CI calculated via the modified Wald method.
Purpose: To compare visual acuity (VA) and OCT outcomes in patients with idiopathic macular telangiectasia (IMT) type 2 who underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) surgery for full-thickness macular holes (FTMHs) versus those who elected to be medically managed (MM) without surgery.
Design: Comparative retrospective case series.
Participants: Patients with IMT type 2 and FTMH.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the stability of reconstituted infliximab solutions and determine whether infliximab is suitable for compounding for potential intravitreal use.
Methods: Infliximab was reconstituted, and the solution was aliquoted and stored refrigerated. On each day of testing, an aliquot was serially diluted to concentrations ranging from 50,000 pg/mL to 69 pg/mL.
Purpose: To determine the tolerability of intravitreal infliximab (Remicade) in patients with refractory diabetic macular edema or choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.
Methods: This is a prospective, interventional, noncomparative, open-label, 12-week pilot study of intravitreal infliximab in four patients who failed conventional therapies. Two had diabetic macular edema and two had choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.