*Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;

†MVZ Augenärztliches Diagnostik- und Therapiecentrum (ADTC) Mönchengladbach/Erkelenz GmbH, Erkelenz, Germany;

‡Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology (IMSB), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;

§Clinical Trials Center Cologne (CTCC), Cologne, Germany;

¶Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;

**Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;

††Eye Center, Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;

‡‡Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany;

§§Department of Ophthalmology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany;

¶¶Department of Ophthalmology, Franziskus Hospital, Münster, Germany;

***Eye Clinic Sulzbach, Knappschaft Hospital Saar, Sulzbach, Germany;

†††Center of Ophthalmology, University Eye Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;

‡‡‡Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany;

§§§Department of Ophthalmology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany;

¶¶¶Department of Ophthalmology, Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany;

****Department of Ophthalmology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany;

††††F. Hofmann—La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland; and

‡‡‡‡Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany.

Reprint requests: Caroline Gietzelt, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany; e-mail: [email protected]

The authors acknowledge the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (FA 441/4-1)) for funding the study. This work was supported by retina.net, the German competence network for clinical studies in retinal disorders. These funders had no participation in or authority on study design, data, or writing of the report.

Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Ophthalmology, DOG, Berlin, October 1, 2022.

None of the authors has any financial/conflicting interests to disclose.

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