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The Retina Channel Podcast

The Retina Channel is an ophthalmology journal club discussing new scientific articles focused on retina. The target audience are eye care professionals who are interested in the most recent advances in retina.

“Our mission is to facilitate transmission of knowledge from researchers to their target audience.

Jan 12, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Muni discusses two of his recent publications on repair of retinal detachment. In the first article, he discusses long-term reattachment rates of patients that were studied in the PIVOT trial, showing that both groups of patients who underwent either pneumatic retinopexy or vitrectomy had excellent...


Dec 10, 2024

Dr. Cindy Chen describes her group’s work on a retrospective review of association of systemic methotrexate therapy and a lower rate of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) after retinal detachment repair in large cohort of 2674 eligible patients. 


Nov 11, 2024

Professor Maher Saleh discusses his group’s findings for the use of perfluorocarbon in the treatment of macula-off retinal detachment. The study results suggest that perfluorocarbon liquid use during vitrectomy for macula-Off Retinal detachment has no impact on Macular folds and Metamorphopsia.

Discussed article:


Oct 7, 2024

Dr. Marc Spirn from Wills Eye Hospital discusses the results of a retrospective study of performing lattice degeneration on a series of patients who had lattice degeneration with high risk features.

 

The discussed article:

Kazan AS, Mahmoudzadeh R, Salabati M, Sharpe J, Fineman MS, Hsu J, Yonekawa Y, Spirn MJ....


Aug 5, 2024

Dr. Witkin from the American Society of Retina Specialists talks about our current knowledge of the incidence of retinal vasculitis following intravitreal injection of Pegcetacoplan for treatment of geographic atrophy.

Discussed article:

Witkin AJ, Jaffe GJ, Srivastava SK, Davis JL, Kim JE. Retinal Vasculitis...