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Usha Chakravarthy is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom and has an extensive body of research primarily focused on medicine with a significant specialization in ophthalmology.

Their research spans several subfields, including ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, neurology, and pathology and forensic medicine. The main topics covered by their work include retinal diseases and treatments, retinal imaging and analysis, retinal and optic conditions, glaucoma and retinal disorders, retinal development and disorders, retinal and macular surgery, and retinopathy of prematurity studies.

Chakravarthy has contributed notably to the following recent publications:

  • Age-related macular degeneration, 2021, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images, 2023, Nature
  • Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy, 2020, Ophthalmology
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 2024, JAMA
  • Eplerenone for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy in patients with active, previously untreated disease for more than 4 months (VICI): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet

Frequent co-authors in their research include Tünde Pető, Ruth Hogg, Andrew Lotery, Paul J. Foster, and Sobha Sivaprasad. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers involved in related fields of eye disease and vision science.

Chakravarthy's work is published predominantly in journals focused on ophthalmology and eye health. The leading publication venues for their work are:

  • Ophthalmology Retina
  • British Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Eye
  • Ophthalmology
  • American Journal of Ophthalmology

Best Publications

  • Global Causes of Blindness and Distance Vision Impairment 1990-2020: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Seth R Flaxman;Rupert R A Bourne;Serge Resnikoff;Serge Resnikoff;Peter Ackland

  • Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Rupert R A Bourne;Seth R Flaxman;Tasanee Braithwaite;Maria V Cicinelli

  • Clinical Classification of Age-related Macular Degeneration

    Frederick L. Ferris;C.P. Wilkinson;Alan Bird;Usha Chakravarthy

  • Clinical risk factors for age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Usha Chakravarthy;Tien Y. Wong;Tien Y. Wong;Astrid Fletcher;Elisabeth C Piault

  • Ranibizumab versus bevacizumab to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration: one-year findings from the IVAN randomized trial.

    Usha Chakravarthy;Simon P. Harding;Chris A. Rogers;Susan M. Downes

  • Alternative treatments to inhibit VEGF in age-related choroidal neovascularisation: 2-year findings of the IVAN randomised controlled trial

    Usha Chakravarthy;Simon P Harding;Chris A Rogers;Susan M Downes

  • Proposed lexicon for anatomic landmarks in normal posterior segment spectral-domain optical coherence tomography: the IN•OCT consensus.

    Giovanni Staurenghi;Srinivas Sadda;Usha Chakravarthy;Richard F. Spaide

  • The natural history and prognosis of neovascular age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis.

    Tien Wong;Usha Chakravarthy;Ronald Klein;Paul Mitchell

  • Consensus Definition for Atrophy Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration on OCT: Classification of Atrophy Report 3.

    Srinivas R. Sadda;Robyn Guymer;Frank G. Holz;Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg

  • Guidelines for the Management of Diabetic Macular Edema by the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA).

    Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth;Jose Garcia-Arumi;Francesco Bandello;Karina Berg

  • Consensus Nomenclature for Reporting Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Data: Consensus on Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Nomenclature Study Group

    Richard F. Spaide;Glenn J. Jaffe;David Sarraf;K. Bailey Freund

  • A common CFH haplotype, with deletion of CFHR1 and CFHR3, is associated with lower risk of age-related macular degeneration.

    Anne E Hughes;Nick Orr;Hossein Esfandiary;Martha Diaz-Torres

  • Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in older Europeans: the European Eye Study (EUREYE).

    Cristina A. Augood;Johannes R. Vingerling;Paulus T. V. M. de Jong;Usha Chakravarthy

  • Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Europe: The Past and the Future

    Johanna M. Colijn;Gabriëlle H.S. Buitendijk;Elena Prokofyeva;Dalila Alves

  • Clinical efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept versus panretinal photocoagulation for best corrected visual acuity in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy at 52 weeks (CLARITY): a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised, controlled, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial

    Sobha Sivaprasad;A Toby Prevost;Joana C Vasconcelos;Amy Riddell

  • Year 2 efficacy results of 2 randomized controlled clinical trials of pegaptanib for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

    U Chakravarthy;A P Adamis;E T Cunningham

  • Defining response to anti-VEGF therapies in neovascular AMD

    W M Amoaku;U Chakravarthy;R Gale;M Gavin

  • Treatment of age-related subfoveal neovascular membranes by teletherapy: a pilot study

    Usha Chakravarthy;R. F. Houston;D. B. Archer

  • StereoTactic radiotherapy for wet Age-Related macular degeneration (STAR): study protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial

    James E. Neffendorf;James E. Neffendorf;Riti Desai;Yanzhong Wang;Joanna Kelly

  • Age related macular degeneration: Better tools are needed to measure quality of life and visual outcomes

    Usha Chakravarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Astrid E. Fletcher
Astrid E. Fletcher London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Andrew J. Lotery
Andrew J. Lotery University of Southampton
Ian S. Young
Ian S. Young Queen's University Belfast
Barnaby C Reeves
Barnaby C Reeves University of Bristol
Jesús Vioque
Jesús Vioque Miguel Hernandez University
Robyn H. Guymer
Robyn H. Guymer University of Melbourne
Srinivas R. Sadda
Srinivas R. Sadda University of California, Los Angeles
Paulus T. V. M. de Jong
Paulus T. V. M. de Jong University of Amsterdam
Christopher Patterson
Christopher Patterson Queen's University Belfast

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