Individualized ocular characteristics should be considered before starting GLP-1 RA therapies for weight loss and diabetes management.

Medically reviewed by Andrew Greenberg, MD Peripheral vision is what you see beyond your direct line of sight. It helps provide a complete sense of your surroundings without moving your head. Jump to ...

A new study led by researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU) reveals that subtle differences in retinal thickness ...

A recent study found that older adults with diabetes who use a GLP-1 drug have double the risk of developing wet age-related ...

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Several studies show that GLP-1 RA use may have beneficial effects on retinal health and even protect against the development of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and age-related ocular diseases. 8,9 ...

Objective Evaluating the potential role of neuromuscular ultrasonography (NMUS) in assessing optic nerve affection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), compared with healthy controls ...

Background/aims: To compare the optic disc parameters between patients with non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and normal controls, using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and ...

Using this method, we also aimed to reproduce previous findings showing retinal degeneration following optic neuritis (ON) in MS. Methods Based on a 5×5 expansion of the Prewitt operator to ...

Purpose Optic neuritis (ON) is a common feature of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). DARC is an intravenous fluo- rescent-tagged annexin V (ANX776) identifying cell stress and apoptosis with retinal imaging.

For optic neuritis, a diagnosis may be based on medical history and not being able to factor in another cause for vision loss. Also, damage to nerves from optic neuritis may be shown on magnetic ...