Personalized Diagnosis and Therapies in Retinal Diseases
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 7983
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diabetic retinopathy; glaucoma; age related macular degeneration; optic neuropathies, inflammatory biomarkers
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Dear Colleagues,
More than 100 hundred years ago, Sir William Osler said, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”. Nowadays, after the development of standardized therapies and protocols based on solid clinical evidence, this old saying is again of interest, with the significant development of genetics and artificial intelligence. Personalized medicine is a new emerging trend that allows the tailoring of healthcare according to the needs of individual patients. Understanding the complex interplay of pathophysiological mechanisms triggered by genetic, inflammatory, and metabolic factors helps in the provision of more efficient care and attainment of better outcomes. Diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma are some of the most frequent causes on blindness and visual impairment worldwide. The identification of novel biomarkers and characterization of different phenotypes may help in risk stratification and the adjustment of the therapeutic approach. Deep learning models based on AI and telemedicine screening have been developed more and more in recent years, and increasing evidence shows that they are helpful in the decision-making process and for tailoring the therapeutic approach. Ocular gene therapy has reached important milestones starting with approval in 2017 of voretigene neparvovec-rzyl (Luxturna, Spark Therapeutics) for retinal dystrophies with RPE65 mutations, followed by ongoing clinical trials for AMD, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
For this Special Issue, we welcome original papers, reviews, commentaries, and short reports regarding a personalized approach in retinal diseases that enables treatment to be based on an individual's genetic, biomarker profile, or artificial intelligence models.
Dr. Ana Dascalu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomarkers
- gene therapy
- artificial intelligence in ophthalmology
- inherited retinal diseases
- diabetic retinopathy
- age-related macular degeneration
- glaucoma
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