Lee, Irene T.
Lampen, Shaun I.R.
Wong, Tien P.
Major, James C. Jr
Wykoff, Charles C. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7756-5091
Article History
Received: 3 October 2018
Revised: 26 November 2018
Accepted: 31 December 2018
First Online: 11 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form atExternalRef removedand declare: CCW has received research grants from Adverum Biotechnologies, grants from Aerpio Therapeutics, grants and personal fees from Alcon Laboratories, Inc., grants from Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc., grants from Alimera Sciences, Inc., grants from Allegro Ophthalmics, LLC, grants and personal fees from Allergan, Inc., personal fees from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, grants from Apellis Pharmaceutical, personal fees from Atheneum Partners, grants from Astellas Pharma Inc., grants from Aura Biosciences, Inc., personal fees from Bayer AG, grants from Boehrigner-Ingelheim, grants from Chiltern International, Inc., personal fees from Consultants LLC, personal fees from CORCEPT, personal fees from Destum Partners Inc., personal fees from D.O.R.C., grants and personal fees from Genentech, Inc., grants from GlaxoSmithKline, grants from Heidelberg Engineering, personal fees from Hexal AG, grants from Iconic Therapeutics, grants from INC Research, grants from John Hopkins University, personal fees from k2c Medical Communications, grants from NEI, personal fees from Notal Vision, grants from Novartis International AG, personal fees from Novo Nordisk, grants from OHR Pharmaceutical, Inc., personal fees from ONL Therapeutics, Inc., grants from Ophthotech Corporation, grants from Ora, Inc., grants from pSivida Corp., grants and personal fees from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, grants from Regenexbio Inc., grants and personal fees from Roche, grants and personal fees from Santen Inc., personal fees from Prime Education LLC, grants from SciFluor Life Sciences, LLC, personal fees from System Analytic, grants from Taiwan Liposome Company, personal fees from ThromboGenics NV., grants from Tyrogenex, Inc., personal fees from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., grants and personal fees from Clearside Biomedical, outside the submitted work; JCM has received research grants and personal fees from Alimera, grants from Acucela, grants from Alcon, grants from Allergan, grants from Apellis, grants from Clearside Biomedical, grants from D.O.R.C., grants fromExternalRef removed, grants and personal fees from Genentech, grants from Iconic, grants from Novartis, grants from Ophthotech, grants from Roche, grants from Regeneron, grants from Bayer, grants from Santeen, grants from Thrombogenics, grants from Tyrogenex, outside the submitted work; TPW, ITL, and SIRL declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this retrospective type of study, formal consent is not required.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.