Cataract surgery in patients with age-related macular degeneration

In this issue, Chen and colleagues report on a single institution, retrospective study on cataract surgery outcomes on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients. The study design provided outcomes of patients in 3 AMD categories—intermediate AMD, neovascular AMD (nAMD), and fovea-involving geographic atrophy—by comparing each category with matched pre-operative visual acuity control groups who did not have cataract surgery.1 The ideal...