Re: Rosenfeld et al.: Warning: do not treat intermediate AMD with laser therapy (Ophthalmology. 2019;126:839-840)

Re: Hagstrom et al.: Pharmacogenetics for genes associated with age-related macular degeneration in the comparison of AMD treatments trials (CATT) (Ophthalmology 2013;120:593-9).

They compared our approach with their technique 2 and described some advantages with their technique. They opined that our technique did not take advantage of the intrascleral fixation of the IOL because a 25-gauge vitrectomy was performed before IOL fixation. With their technique, an anterior vitrectomy was performed using 25-gauge trocars for haptic externalization. We recommend performing a ...

Re: Holland et al.: Antibiotic resistance in acute postoperative endophthalmitis (Ophthalmology 2014;121:S1-S9).

Re: Yu et al.: Releasable encircling band for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (Ophthalmology 2014;121:2504-5).

Opinion: Do not treat

The increasing use of cross-sectional imaging has made the incidental detection of asymptomatic stones a common occurrence with an estimated 8% of the population affected (1). Despite its frequency the average asymptomatic stone size is only 3 mm and is frequently located in the lower pole (1, 2). Nevertheless, urologists are often faced with the decision to treat or not to treat these asymptom...

Supplement to: Objects do not predict fixations better than early saliency; A re-analysis of Einhäuser et al.’s data

We use three prevalent scoring methods to test the object-map hypothesis, since validity of this model boils down to fair model comparison with bottom-up saliency models. Please see Appendix B for explanation of state-of-the-art saliency models used here. We report results using the previously proposed Normalized Scanpath Saliency (NSS) (Peters et al., 2005; Parkhurst et al., 2002), Correlation...