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Article History

Received: 20 November 2023

Accepted: 11 January 2024

First Online: 3 February 2024

Declarations

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: Dr. Teo reports consultancy fees, honorarium, travel support and speaker fees from Bayer and Novartis outside the submitted work. Dr. Park reports consultancy fees, honorarium, travel support and speaker fees from Bayer, Novartis, Alcon, Roche, Samsug Bioepis, Oculight, RetiMark outside the submitted work. Dr. Ruamviboonsuk reports consultancy fees, grants, travel support and speaker fees from Roche and Bayer outside the submitted work. Dr Mori reports personal fees from Bayer Yakuhin Ltd., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd., Novartis Pharma K.K., Senju Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd., Santen Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, and Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co, Ltd. Dr. Chen SJ reports consultation fees from Roche, Bayer, Novartis and Allergan outside the submitted work. Dr. Lee reports consultancy fees, travel support and speaker fees from Bayer, Novartis, Roche outside the submitted work. Dr. Rajagopalan reports honorarium, grants and speaker fees from Alcon, Allergan, Bayer, Novartis and Roche outside the submitted work. Dr. Terasaki reports research support for instrument from Carl Zeiss and speaker fees from Alcon, Bayer, Novartis, Santen, Chugai and Sanofi outside the submitted work. Dr. Sekiryu reports support from Santen, Senju, Chugai, Alcon, Novartis, and Bayer outside the submitted work. Dr. Yanagi reports honorarium, grants and speaker fees from Alcon, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Kyowa Kirin, Novartis, Santen Pharmaceuticals, Senju Pharmaceuticals and Roche/Chugai outside the submitted work. Dr. Lai reports consultancy fees, grants, travel support and speaker fees from Bayer, Novartis and Roche during the conduct of the study; consultancy fees, grants and speaker fees from Bayer, Novartis and Roche outside the submitted work. Dr. Cheung reports consultancy fees, honorarium, travel support and speaker fees from Bayer, Novartis, Roche, Boehringer Ingelheim, Zeiss and Topcon outside the submitted work.

: The study was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and with approval of respective institutional review boards of the participating centers.