Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; online eye health forum

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Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; online eye health forum

This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology reports on a national study that finds cataract surgery is likely to benefit patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at all stages of the disease, on a clinical trial showing that the steroid triamcinolone may be effective in advanced diabetic macular edema (DME) patients when standard treatment fails, and on the public's use of two Academy-sponsored online eye health forums.

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Tags: Cataract, Macular Degeneration, Disease and Condition, Forum, Clinical Trial, Triamcinolone Cream, Ophthalmology, Surgery

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