The Frustrating: Rapid Atrophy Growth Despite Treatment

Judy Kim, MD; Sunir Garg, MD; Deepak Sambhara, MD; and Rishi Singh, MD

What do you do when a patient’s GA lesions continue to grow despite regular treatment? Sunir Garg, MD, shares a real-world case from his clinic in which a patient’s disease advanced significantly despite receiving treatment over a 2-year period. Dr. Garg and moderator Judy Kim, MD, and panelists Deepak Sambhara, MD, and Rishi Singh, MD, explore challenges to explaining the value proposition of treatment to patients, discuss inter-modality imaging disagreements in GA patients, and gameplan decision-making around halting treatment in some GA patients.

Posted: 6/19/2025