1. Which statement regarding the prevalance of nonvascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in the United States is correct?

2. Which statement regarding the prevalence of DR/DME in the US is correct?

3. When choosing an anti-VEGF treatment for nAMD and DR/DME, which of the following should be considered?

4. Which approach to extending anti-VEGF durability is still in the earliest phases of FDA sanctioned clinical trials?

5. The Port Delivery System (PDS) with ranibizumab is:

6. Case Study for Question 6
A 59-year-old African American woman presents with a chief complaint of blurred vision in her left eye (OS). Her past medical history is significant for a 20 year history of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and a 25 year history of poorly controlled hypertension. On exam, visual acuity is 20/50 in her right eye (OD) and 20/100 OS. Dilated retinal exam shows moderately severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) with diabetic macular edema OS>OD. The central retinal thickness in the left eye is 540 μm on optical coherence tomography (OCT; normal is 250 μm).

What is the first-line standard of care therapy that should be offered to this patient?

7. Which of the following anti-VGEF therapies is not currently FDA approved for use in the eye?

Evaluation Questions

8. How confident are in your treatment choices for the patient question #6?

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