Incidence of Uveitis Following Initiation of Prostaglandin Analogs Versus Other Glaucoma Medications: A Study from the SOURCE Repository.

Purpose: To evaluate the risk of incidence rates of uveitis among patients starting topical glaucoma therapy.

Design: Retrospective database study utilizing the Sight Outcomes Research Collaborative (SOURCE) Ophthalmology Data Repository.

Participants: Adult glaucoma patients who were recently started on topical glaucoma therapy.

Eye Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Purpose: To assess changes in vision care availability at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) between 2017 and 2021 and whether neighborhood-level demographic social risk factors (SRFs) associated with eye care services provided by FQHCs.

Design: Secondary data analysis of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) data and 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS).

Participants: Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Systematic Review of Community-Engaged Research in Ophthalmology.

Introduction: Community-engaged research (CEnR) allows researchers and community organizations to partner together to improve health outcomes and to decrease health disparities. While prevalent in other fields of medicine, it is rarely used in ophthalmology.

Areas Covered: A comprehensive search of Ovid MEDLINE, NLM Pubmed, Ovid Embase, Scopus and the Cochrane Library for the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) "Community-based participatory research" and text word variations including in addition to yielded 451 unique references.

Beyond HbA: Environmental Risk Factors for Diabetic Retinopathy.

Diabetic retinopathy affects 4.2 million people in the United States and is the leading cause of blindness in working-aged people. As the prevalence of diabetes continues to rise, cost-effective interventions to decrease blindness from diabetic retinopathy will be paramount.

Reduced fluorescein angiography and fundus photography use in the management of neovascular macular degeneration and macular edema during the past decade.

Purpose: We assessed recent trends in the use of diagnostic testing for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (NVAMD) and macular edema (ME).

Methods: Claims data from a managed-care network were analyzed on patients with NVAMD (n = 22,954) or ME (n = 31,810) to assess the use of fluorescein angiography (FA), fundus photography (FP), and optical coherence tomography (OCT) from 2001 to 2009. Repeated-measures logistic regression was performed to compare patients' odds of undergoing these procedures in 2001, 2005, and 2009.

Cost-effectiveness of various interventions for newly diagnosed diabetic macular edema.

Objective: Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapies have revolutionized the treatment of clinically significant diabetic macular edema (CSDME); yet these agents are expensive, and whether they are cost-effective is unclear. The purpose of this study is to determine the most cost-effective treatment option for patients with newly diagnosed CSDME: focal laser photocoagulation alone (L), focal laser plus intravitreal ranibizumab (L+R), focal laser plus intravitreal bevacizumab (L+B), or focal laser plus intravitreal triamcinolone (L+T) injections.

Design: Cost-effectiveness analysis.

Predicting development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Objective: Identifying individuals most at risk for diabetic retinopathy progression and intervening early can limit vision loss and reduce the costs associated with managing more advanced disease. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with progression from nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).

Research Design And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort analysis using a claims database of all eye care recipients age ≥ 30 years enrolled in a large managed-care network from 2001 to 2009.

Presumed choroidal metastasis secondary to clear cell sarcoma of the right knee.

To present a case of choroidal metastasis of clear cell sarcoma of the tendons and aponeuroses. Observational case report. A 63-year-old woman with multiple systemic metastasis secondary to clear cell sarcoma of the tendons and aponeuroses in her right knee presented with a 3 days history of blurred vision in her left eye.