Maintenance of Vision Needed to Drive after Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Therapy in Patients with Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema.

Objective: To evaluate the association between intravitreal anti-VEGF therapy and visual acuity (VA)/driving vision maintenance over 4 years in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or diabetic macular edema (DME).

Design: Retrospective, observational, clinical practice cohort study using data from the Vestrum Health database.

Participants: Initial diagnosis (January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019) of nAMD or DME and ≥ 1 year of treatment/follow-up history.

REGIONAL POPULATION MOBILITY AND OUTPATIENT RETINA VISITS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

Purpose: To characterize how community mobility patterns across the United States correlate with local changes in retina visits during the pandemic.

Methods: Outpatient retina clinic visits were linked to population mobility by combining multiple public data sets, including the Google Community Mobility Reports and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Infection. Percentage change from baseline in daily-average number of retina visits by county and mobility were measured by county.

Incidence of Retinal Artery and Vein Occlusions During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background And Objective: To examine whether new cases of retinal artery occlusion (RAO) or retinal vein occlusion (RVO) increased during the coronavirus 209 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Patients And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients visiting retina clinics with a new diagnosis in two time periods: between January 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020 (the pre-COVID-19 period), and between March 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020 (the COVID-19 period). The key outcome was the percentage of newly diagnosed central RAO (CRAO), branch RAO (BRAO), central RVO (CRVO), and branch RVO (BRVO) seen in each period.