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AAO 2022 Daily Newsletter
With clinical highlights from Subspecialty Day and AAO 2022, the AAO 2022 Daily email blast allows you to stay on top of the meeting news. Watch for a preview edition on Thursday, Sept. 29, followed by news roundups each evening, from Friday, Sept. 30, to Monday, Oct. 3.
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Read the Top Stories From AAO 2022 and Subspecialty Day

OCT 06, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

From Friday, Sept. 30. through Monday, Oct. 3 thousands of ophthalmologists convened for AAO 2022 and nine Subspecialty Day meetings. Each evening AAO 2022 Daily reported on some of the day’s highlights, and the 20 most-viewed news stories are listed here.

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2022 Orbital Gala

OCT 03, 2022

The 19th annual Orbital Gala took place on Sunday night. This year’s gala celebrated Susan H. Day, MD, the 2022 Orbital Gala special honoree, and Frank Brodie, MD, the 2022 Artemis award winner.

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Preclinical Study: New Gore Glaucoma Drainage Implant

OCT 03, 2022

Amanda Kiely Bicket, MD, MSE, discussed a new Gore glaucoma drainage implant (GDI) prototype that has been in development since 2017.

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Cataract Spotlight Session: Highlights and Pearls

OCT 03, 2022

Knowing your limitations—that is, knowing when to stop and to not do more—was one of the many surgical pearls that emerged during this year’s Cataract Spotlight session, “M&M Rounds—Learning From My Mistakes.”

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AI, Deep Learning, and the Detection of Systemic Diseases

OCT 03, 2022

Tien Y. Wong, MD, PhD, assessed current applications of AI/DL and summed up recent advances in the field of oculomics on Saturday during Retina Subspecialty Day.

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Wartime Trauma: Injuries Worse, Can Care Coordination Get Better?

OCT 03, 2022

The U.S. military needs to improve its coordination of vision care and shore up its ophthalmic capabilities, which are threatened by a proposed steep reduction in personnel, said Robert A. Mazzoli, MD.

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Changes in Corneal Sensitivity and Dry Eye Symptoms After SMILE vs. LASIK Surgery

OCT 03, 2022

At the Refractive Surgery Original Papers session, Edward Manche, MD, and Kevin Ma, MD, presented the results of a study comparing changes in corneal sensitivity and self-reported dry eye after wavefront-guided femtosecond LASIK vs. SMILE.

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New in Dry Eye Treatments

OCT 03, 2022

“I just think all the external disease nerds of this world need to unite,” said Gerami Seitzman, MD, while sharing an update on novel dry eye treatments under investigation.

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Panelists Name 2022's Best Original Papers

OCT 03, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

During AAO 2022’s Original Papers sessions, the expert panels moderating those presentations each named the paper that they rate most highly

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Causes of Childhood Blindness in the United States

OCT 03, 2022

In the United States, the leading cause of childhood blindness reported in the IRIS Registry was retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a treatable condition, reported Han Woong Lim, MD, PhD.

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When to Consider Endoscopic DCR

OCT 02, 2022

“This is not the type of surgery that you can learn on TikTok or on YouTube,” said Bradford William Lee, MD, MSC, as he discussed the benefits of and surgical considerations for endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy.

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Extend Your Surgical Life by Protecting Your Neck and Back

OCT 02, 2022

Surgeons and clinicians sacrifice themselves for their patients, said Deepinder Dhaliwal, MD. Ophthalmologists need to “fortify and strengthen ourselves so we can be vibrant for our whole lives.”

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What Patients Really Want to Know About Uveal Melanoma

OCT 02, 2022

Carol Shields, MD, provided an overview of uveal melanoma classifications and nonconditional and conditional survival. She described some recent studies that demonstrate how conditional survival, based on classifications from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), could help provid…

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Retinitis Pigmentosa Responds to Gene Therapy

OCT 02, 2022

In a phase 1/2 study, the gene therapy AAV5-RPGR showed positive results in patients with RPGR-associated X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP), reported Michel Michaelidis, MD.

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Change Your Focus to Control Burnout

OCT 02, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

If your focus is your reality, then admitting you are in burnout and choosing to attend to self-care can reboot your life, said Dr. Blatt.

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Do All Pediatric Retinal Diagnoses Need to Be Made Right Away?

OCT 01, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

“I devised a retinal fear meter,” said Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, describing a guide for determining how urgently a range of diagnoses must be addressed.

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What Does It Mean to Be a Good Doctor?

OCT 01, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

“I want to use the time to discuss the critical challenge that faces all of us as physicians—and as people, really— and maybe give us a chance to think of some ways we might help move the needle,” said Michael Drake, MD, during the 2022 Robert N. Shaffer Lecture.

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Study Results: Gene Tx for Geographic Atrophy

OCT 01, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

Data from a phase 1 study of the safety and efficacy of JNJ-1887 in geographic atrophy (GA) indicate that the study met its primary objective, reported Michael Nathan Cohen, MD.

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Uveitis Labs: “If You Order the Test, You Own the Test!”

OCT 01, 2022

“What you want to know is the likelihood of your patient having that disease for which you’ve tested: the positive predictive value,” said Lyndell Lim, MD, PhD.

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Pearls for Sutureless Scleral-Fixated IOL Surgery

SEP 30, 2022 in AAO 2022 Daily

“This has really become my go-to technique because I find it not only very effective, but it can be incredibly efficient once the technique is mastered,” said Christina Weng, MD, MBA, about trocar-based sutureless scleral-fixated IOL surgery.

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