Gwen Cousins, MD

10/22/2020

Support your surgeon.  Speak out against unequal Medicare cuts for surgeons. 

American College of Surgeons

11/22/2019

Songs to avoid playing in the OR. You wouldn’t want to hear “Blinded by the light” if you were having eye surgery. Find out other songs to avoid in the article.

Chief medical editor Larry E. Patterson, MD, loves playing music in the operating room…unless it’s from this list of 10 worst songs for eye surgery.

11/02/2019

Check out this retina challenge diagnosis from ASRS.
https://www.asrs.org/clinical/spotlight-case/spotlight-case-a-case-of-eye-scites

11/02/2019

A drug widely prescribed for a bladder condition for decades, now appears to be toxic to the retina, the light sensing tissue at the back of the eye that allows us to see.

10/17/2019

Good news for patients with geographic atrophy, a type of dry macular degeneration that currently has no available treatment that is approved by the FDA. Retina Associates New Orleans is currently enrolling patients into the Apellis pharmaceutical clinical trial to receive this novel treatment. If you are interested in learning more about this treatment please contact us at www.retinaassociates.org

Patients treated with the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan (APL-2, Apellis Pharmaceuticals) showed significant reduction in growth of geographic atrophy (GA) lesions compared with sham-treated eyes, according to 1-year data from the phase 2 FILLY study.1 The trial was a multicenter, randomized, si...