5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  International retina experts advocate for a shift in defining, diagnosing, and managing geographic atrophy (GA) at the 2025 Euretina Congress.

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  The white paper identifies four core challenges in GA: lack of refined definitions, limited clinical experience, inadequate outcome measures, and need for early specialist referrals.

• 3

  Current classifications based on color fundus photography fail to capture the diversity of GA phenotypes, necessitating advanced imaging techniques.

• 4

  The authors recommend alternative functional outcome measures to better reflect early patient decline, moving beyond best-corrected visual acuity.

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  The initiative emphasizes the importance of early referral to specialists for patients with intermediate AMD to prevent vision loss from GA.