Ronald Klein

TL;DR: Major visual disorders among Americans older than 40 years result in substantial economic costs for the US economy and well-designed public health programs may have the ability to reduce this burden in the future.

TL;DR: Because photodynamic therapy with verteporfin can safely increase the chance of stabilizing or improving vision in patients with subfoveal CNV from pathologic myopia compared with a placebo, it is recommended ophthalmologists consider vertEPorfin therapy for treatment of such patients.

TL;DR: Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) was defined using a proposed international system for prevalence surveys, including threshold visual field defect and optic disc damage as mentioned in this paper, and bilateral appositional angle closure was combined with optic nerve damage (judged by field and disc as for OAG).

TL;DR: A doubling of the visual angle of presenting VA may be expected to occur in the year after initial presentation in eyes with untreated neovascular AMD, and the diversity of reporting formats, paucity of long-term natural history data, and heterogeneity among the reported clinical studies impose limits to the clear understanding ofLong-term prognosis for visual function in neov vascular AMD.

TL;DR: The prevalence of OAG in Hispanic persons was intermediate between reported values for white and black persons, and the prevalence increased more quickly with increasing age than in other ethnic groups.