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ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2021

Revisiting the Utility of Dilated Fundus Exams in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Receiving Regular Intravitreal Injections.

Fares Antaki, Daniel Milad, Ali Dirani

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Article in Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Fares AntakiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6679-7276
Daniel MiladFaculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0693-3421
Ali DiraniDepartment of Ophthalmology, Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2013-5538
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement · CAHôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont · CAUniversité Laval · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients receiving regular anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) intravitreal injections for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) routinely undergo dilated fundus examination (DFE) at each visit. In this paper, we review the current evidence on the utility of DFE in guiding treatment of established patients with nAMD and discuss novel treatment algorithms that defer DFE assessments with the advent of optical coherence tomography (OCT). We also debate on the value of DFE in the current sanitary context of COVID-19 and highlight important clinical scenarios where it must be performed.

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age-related macular degenerationCOVID-19dilated fundus examintravitreal injectionsoptical coherence tomography

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PMID33746511
PMCPMC7967028
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