16 Oct The Retinal Atlas
“The Retinal Atlas” is now the most widely distributed textbook in the field of ophthalmology, the recipient of the Prose Award for medical text, relevant enough to be translated into...
“The Retinal Atlas” is now the most widely distributed textbook in the field of ophthalmology, the recipient of the Prose Award for medical text, relevant enough to be translated into...
Severe myopia referred to as pathologic myopia was the subject of a textbook authored and edited by Macula Foundation supporters. This disease of the retina and macula is a major...
The “New” Retinal Atlas is an extension and expansion of the first Retinal Atlas with an emphasis on current imaging technology, pharmacological therapies, and newly recognized diseases. ...
There are now 4 companies which manufacture a device which can determine flow of the retinal and choroidal circulations without the use of a contrast dye. The risk of intravenous...
Our understanding of “pachychoroid disease” has expanded greatly thanks to multimodal clinical imaging technologies. Cross-sectional and en face depth-resolved imaging, such as enhanced depth imaging (EDI) OCT, Swept-Source OCT (SS-OCT),...
The Macula Foundation supported research in the late 1990's leading to the discovery of drugs to be injected into the eye for treatment of "wet" macular degeneration. The investigator at that...
Age-Related Macular (AMD) is the leading cause of legal blindness in western societies worldwide. It has an estimated prevalence for all forms of disease which reaches nearly 8.7% of populations...
Our overall meeting this year promises to provide a better understanding of current critical issues which are inherent in macular diseases and their treatments. They include new concepts and chorioretinal...
Myopic Macular Degeneration. High myopia is a worldwide significant cause of macular degeneration. Extreme elongation of the length of the eye leads to loss of cells or atrophy, wet degeneration...
Macular Telangiectasia is a relatively uncommon but well-known disease involving the retinal circulation in the central macula. The Macula Foundation investigators have done numerous clinical studies on this disorder, focusing...