Key takeaways:

A trends survey highlights worldwide retina practices.

Monitoring of inactive age-related macular degeneration ranges between every 6 months and every 12 months.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — At the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting, Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS, overviewed key findings from the Global Trends in Retina Survey.

According to Garg, it is common practice in the U.S. and some other areas to see patients with inactive age-related macular degeneration once every 12 months for monitoring. However, specialists in some countries will see these patients every 6 months.

Additionally, treatment trends for patients with recalcitrant diabetic macular edema varied between the U.S. and Europe.

“In the U.S., there is a strong preference to switchi

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