3 Topic Commentaries

Five-Year Insights From the Pegcetacoplan Program

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  Eleonora (Nora) Lad, MD, PhD

  Ophthalmology – Retina/AMD

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  Duke Eye Center, Duke University School of Medicine

  “the most important event in retinal ophthalmology in more than a decade,”

  Source
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  Christina J. Flaxel, MD, FARVO

  Ophthalmology – Retina/AMD

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  Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

  “With geographic atrophy, patches of tissue in the central part of the retina, or macula, begin to deteriorate and eventually damage central vision,”

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  Brandon J. Lujan, MD

  Ophthalmology – Retina/AMD

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  Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

  “there is good evidence that drusen contain a large amount of complement proteins and are more active than previously suspected,”

  Source