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Corneal ectatic disorders, such as keratoconus, progressively weaken corneal integrity, leading to thinning, irregular astigmatism and visual deterioration.1 Typically progressive in nature, these ectasias result in increasingly thinner corneas, causing the cornea to protrude forward into a cone shape. This leads to increasing amounts of myopia and astigmatism – both regular and irregular – as the disease […]

Carl Regillo, Hawaiian Eye 2022: Emerging Therapies for Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration

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Published Online: Feb 8th 2022

There are new treatment options for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration emerging, according to a presentation at Hawaiian Eye 2022. It was a pleasure to speak with Dr Carl Regillo (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) about his views on the latest treatments to emerge for wet age-related macular degeneration.

The abstract entitled Update on Emerging Wet AMD Therapies was presented at Hawaiian Eye 2022, 15–21 January 2022.  

Questions

  1. What is the current status of the clinical development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration? (00:14)
  2. What other agents are emerging or in late stage clinical development? (02:02)

Speaker Disclosure: Carl Regillo has received speakers’ fees from Genentech, Allergan, Annexon, Novartis, Apellis, Iveric, NGM, Adverum, Regenxbio, Regeneron, Opthea, Thea.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media Ltd. Interview conducted by Lisa Glass.

Filmed in coverage of Hawaiian Eye 2022.

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