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Keeping Patients at the Center of GA Therapy: A Young Patient with GA and Good Vision

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

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How do you keep a motivated GA patient engaged when subjective vision remains intact? Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH presents the case of a 73-year-old mixed-media artist with extrafoveal GA and good vision. Moderator John Kitchens, MD, with panelists Margaret Chang, MD, MS, and David Eichenbaum, MD, discuss counseling asymptomatic patients, using OCT/FAF to show progression, setting expectations (“buy time, not restore vision”), and educating on the low—but real—risk of conversion to wet AMD.

Posted: 9/24/2025

Keywords:

Geographic Atrophy (GA)

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extrafoveal

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asymptomatic

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OCT

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FAF

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fundus autofluorescence

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

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disease progression

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Patient Experience

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conversion

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Patient Education

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Wet AMD

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wet age-related macular degeneration

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Macular Degeneration

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Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

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Keeping Patients at the Center of GA Therapy: A Young Patient with GA and Good Vision

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

How do you keep a motivated GA patient engaged when subjective vision remains intact? Ferhina Ali, MD, MPH presents the case of a 73-year-old mixed-media artist with extrafoveal GA and good vision. Moderator John Kitchens, MD, with panelists Margaret Chang, MD, MS, and David Eichenbaum, MD, discuss counseling asymptomatic patients, using OCT/FAF to show progression, setting expectations (“buy time, not restore vision”), and educating on the low—but real—risk of conversion to wet AMD.

Posted: 9/24/2025

Keywords:

Geographic Atrophy (GA)

•

extrafoveal

•

asymptomatic

•

OCT

•

FAF

•

fundus autofluorescence

•

Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

•

disease progression

•

Patient Experience

•

conversion

•

Patient Education

•

Wet AMD

•

wet age-related macular degeneration

•

Macular Degeneration

•

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

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