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GA Options: Keeping Patients at the Center of GA Therapy

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Keeping Patients at the Center of GA Therapy: Older Caretaker for Whom Driving Is Paramount

John Kitchens, MD; Margaret Chang, MD, MS; David Eichenbaum, MD; and Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH

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Can GA therapy preserve driving independence while balancing treatment burden? Case presenter David Eichenbaum, MD, walks through the case of a 79-year-old caregiver whose good eye shows early atrophy while the fellow eye advances to foveal-involving GA. Host John Kitchens, MD, and panelists Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH, and Margaret Chang, MD, MS, discuss tactics for initiating therapy in patients with bilateral disease. They discuss using OCT and fundus autofluorescence to track junctional zone activity and review the value of foveal tissue preservation.

Posted: 9/24/2025

Keywords:

Geographic Atrophy (GA)

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Patient Education

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Patient Experience

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treatment burden

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atrophy

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fovea

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foveal-involving

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bilateral disease

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FAF

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fundus autofluorescence

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OCT

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

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imaging

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junctional zone

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tissue preservation

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Keeping Patients at the Center of GA Therapy: Older Caretaker for Whom Driving Is Paramount

John Kitchens, MD; Margaret Chang, MD, MS; David Eichenbaum, MD; and Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH

Can GA therapy preserve driving independence while balancing treatment burden? Case presenter David Eichenbaum, MD, walks through the case of a 79-year-old caregiver whose good eye shows early atrophy while the fellow eye advances to foveal-involving GA. Host John Kitchens, MD, and panelists Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH, and Margaret Chang, MD, MS, discuss tactics for initiating therapy in patients with bilateral disease. They discuss using OCT and fundus autofluorescence to track junctional zone activity and review the value of foveal tissue preservation.

Posted: 9/24/2025

Keywords:

Geographic Atrophy (GA)

•

Patient Education

•

Patient Experience

•

treatment burden

•

atrophy

•

fovea

•

foveal-involving

•

bilateral disease

•

FAF

•

fundus autofluorescence

•

OCT

•

Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

•

imaging

•

junctional zone

•

tissue preservation

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