Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; onlin...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 11/01/2009 - 23:00

(American Academy of Ophthalmology) This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology reports on a national study that finds cataract surgery is likely to benefit patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at all stages of the disease, on a clinical trial showing that the steroid triamcinolone may be effective in advanced diabetic macular edema (DME) patients when standard treatment fails, and on the public's use of two Academy-sponsored online eye health forums.


 

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