Omar AbuQamar

Surgical retina fellow @LaheyHospital | Residency via @TuftsMedSchool | MD MMSc via @UJ_MED @harvardmed | Opinions are my own & not medical advice

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What can the eye tell about the heart? We explored associations btw retinal microvasculature via retinal #OCTA & myocardial flow reserve (MFR) via cardiac PET/CT. A collaborative effort and a labor of love with @Bweber04 team of the @BrighamWomens @OCT_Waheed @TuftsMedicalCtr

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While not a direct alternative to MFR from PET, OCTA may provide a rapid and non-invasive means of obtaining additional insight into coronary *microvascular* dysfunction

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@OCT_Waheed

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Averaging is one strategy to enhance #OCTA scan quality. It requires multiple acquisitions - a time and resources consuming process. Here we utilized #DeepLearning to de-noise single OCTA scans to appear comparable to 4-frame averages; "#pseudoaveraging" https://t.co/iyteAMUJaG

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@YichengB @OCT_Waheed Thank you Yicheng!

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We performed a #PostHoc analysis of the #VISTA trial

@OCT_Waheed
https://t.co/A22i8l1S7A

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#OCTA is a cool imaging modality that, thus far, remains mostly a research tool. Variability in quantifying scans is one of the main roadblocks to adopting this tool as a clinical one. Here we introduce a software as an attempt to address this:https://t.co/SwpaYtmSpV
@OCT_Waheed

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@giftluyang @OCT_Waheed @MIT Thank you, Yang!

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In this study, we show that the prototype ultrahigh resolution #OCT can detect & quantify sub-RPE deposits (hypothesized to be basal laminar deposit) in early #AMD, separating AMD pathology from normal #aging

@OCT_Waheed @MIT

https://t.co/y9ai5GhN5n

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@aaronylee @EyeRes_ @ophtho_res I think this would be great. Even if one doesn’t plan to be a producer of big data research, early training during residency will help physicians read AI papers more critically. This is esp true in ophthalmology as a leading medical field in AI.

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@MElshamiMD @harvardmed Congratulations Mohammed! What a great achievement!!

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@CherieEyeMD I guess cleaning a virtual house would be faster?

[Tufts NEEC OCT Research Lab @OCT_Waheed]

Vessel density is an #OCTA quantitative metric commonly used. Our #OCT Fellow Varsha Pramil takes a deep dive into this metric in the #diabetic eye. Read more at
@DovePress https://t.co/Ehokbc2Hk0
#OCT_lab #ophthalmology #retina #diabetes #blindness

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@mymomthesurgeon Only recently I came up with and started implementing this life hack. I wasn’t as smart when I was 11.

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@konsampani @JoslinDiabetes @HMSeye Congratulations Kona!

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@YichengB @USCEye @UMKCmedschool Congrats Yicheng!!

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#Ophthalmology #retina #OCT #macularhole @RetinaJournal

[Tufts NEEC OCT Research Lab @OCT_Waheed]

In 31 eyes, we measured mac hole size using choroidal hypertransmission signal on #OCT (compared to the standard minimum aperture size method). We show hypertransmission signal is a reproducible method that can be used to automate hole size measurement
https://t.co/ywDdgCQNoQ