Ophthalmolgy: what's new in 2015?
Behar-Cohen, F.; Wolfensberger, T.J.
Revue Medicale Suisse 12(500): 67-70
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1660-9379 PMID: 26946708 Document Number: 690821
Whilst imaging methods are developed allowing non-invasive analysis and quantification of corneal nerves, retinal nerve fibers and retinal vessels, the eye is considered as an open window on the nervous and vascular system. In the field of therapies, macular edema can be reduced using several drugs with different mechanisms of action and different kinetics. Artificial retina is now available in Switzerland and gene therapy continues to develop but should still be considered rather as a research tool than as a treatment. Finally, the more striking discovery of the year is probably the reversion of cataract by Lanosterol drops: towards the end of cataract surgery?