Treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration: where we stand in 2024.

Purpose Of Review: This review highlights treatment options, both under investigation and currently available, for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). An update on current clinical studies for dry AMD has been summarized.

Recent Findings: Advanced dry AMD, characterized by geographic atrophy (GA), is a leading cause of blindness in the developed world, though prior to 2023 there was no approved treatment.

Atypical Presentation of Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis Syndrome, a Rare Disease.

Purpose: To expand the current knowledge of tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome (TINU), which might assist other ophthalmologists in recognizing and treating patients with this rare disease.

Methods: A patient with atypical demographics and features was compared with previously described TINU cases. The case was analyzed in terms of how it compares with more "classic" cases, and the differences were identified.

C21orf2 variants causing inherited retinal disease: A review of what we know and a report of two new suspected cases.

Variants in the () gene have recently been associated with the development of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited condition characterized by degeneration of the retina. In this article, we describe 34 previously reported cases of variant-associated retinopathies and present two new suspected cases.

Tackling Health Care Disparities: How to Build a Sarcoidosis Center.

Sarcoidosis is a multi-organ system inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that disproportionately affects women and black patients in the United States. In addition, woman and minority patients have worse outcomes. In 2015, sarcoidosis physicians in cardiology, pulmonary medicine and rheumatology joined forces to create a multidisciplinary sarcoidosis at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Enhancing Diversity in the Ophthalmology Workforce.

Health care teams are most effective at addressing complex problems and improving health outcomes for underserved populations when team members bring diverse life experiences and perspectives to the effort. With rates of visual impairment expected to increase in the United States by 2050, especially among minority populations, diversification of the ophthalmology workforce will be critical in reducing disparities in access to and quality of vision health care. Currently, ophthalmology is less diverse with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender than graduating medical classes and other medical specialties, as well as the general US population.

The Role for Simulation in Professional Identity Formation in Medical Students.

Introduction: Authentic clinical experiences and reflection are critical for medical student professional identity formation (PIF). Individualized learning plans and competency-based education accelerate time to graduation, thus creating more demand for students to gain PIF experiences early in medical education. This pilot study investigated student professional identity experiences related to participation in a clinical simulation during the first week of medical school.

Enduring influence of elizabethan ophthalmic texts of the 1580s: bailey, grassus, and guillemeau.

Three English ophthalmic texts of the 1580s were frequently republished: 1) Walter Bailey's A Briefe Treatise Touching the Preseruation of the Eie Sight, 2) The Method of Phisicke, an adaptation of the medieval treatise of Benevenutus Grassus, and 3) A Worthy Treatise of the Eyes, a translation of Jacques Guillemeau's treatise. Their history is intertwined through composite publications, some of which lacked clear attribution. At least 21 editions incorporated these texts.

Giant choroidal nevus clinical features and natural course in 322 cases.

Purpose: Evaluation of clinical features and natural course of giant choroidal nevi (diameter >or=10 mm).

Design: Retrospective observational case series.

Participants: We included 322 eyes of 322 patients.