Dr. Nitin Kumar

Advanced Eye Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Dr Nitin Kumar is currently working as a senior resident in the Retina and Uveitis services, department of Ophthalmology, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He did his, medical school, MBBS from SKIMS, medical college, Srinagar. He has completed his postgraduate training in ophthalmology from Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has done his fellowship in Uveitis from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. He has received best poster awards in Uveitis society of India and All Indian Ophthalmological society meetings for the year 2019. He has publications in various national and international peer-reviewed journals. He has special interest in management of Uveitis entities and diabetic retinopathy.

  1. Articles 1 Apr 2021 9 min read

    How do we treat inflammatory CNVM ?

    Inflammatory choroidal neovascular membranes (CNVM) cause an acute and significant visual loss 1,2. Mostly affecting eyes with posterior or panuveitis, the chronic recurrent nature of inflammation further worsens the visual prognosis in these eyes, such as serpiginous like choroiditis, punctuate inner choroidopathy (PIC), multifocal choroiditis, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome, toxoplasma retinochoroiditis, etc,.3,4 . The angiogenic stimulus in inflammatory CNVM is driven by local inflammation and/or a degenerative breach in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)-Bruch’s membrane complex4. An active intraocular inflammation induces the release of several inflammatory mediators including cytokines, chemokines, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and complement activation, which in turn promote retinal and choroidal neovascularization. Majority of inflammatory CNVM are classic (on fundus fluorescein angiography), and type 2 on spectral domain o

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