In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of ...

Investigators advised clinicians of the potential for dystrophies that mimic age-related macular degeneration and other ...

The most advanced form of this condition is called geographic atrophy (GA), in which some retinal cells die off. The condition takes its name from the patches of damage on the retina, which can be ...

Researchers at Penn Vet and the University of Padova identified a novel variant connected to progressive retinal atrophy ...

Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) is an imaging technique that is used to evaluate retinal disorders that affect the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). FAF is useful to evalute disease activity in a ...

It may show areas of loss of outer retinal layers and the collapse of overlying layers in the region of the geographic atrophy. These often show an increased reflectance of the underlying ...

Some, but not all, people with AMD will go on to develop geographic atrophy, which results in “the loss of one thin, but ...

According to the company’s press statement, the therapy is aimed at combating geographic atrophy ... s Eyecyte RPE therapy, which aims to replace lost or damaged retinal pigment epithelium ...