VEGFA and cataract: Several previous papers reported the differences in aqueous humor cytokine levels between nAMD patients and cataract patients as controls, and implicated the roles of inflammatory cytokines such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), interferon gamma-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) and MCP-1 in the pathophysiology of nAMD9,18,19.