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Combined viscocanalostomy, cataract surgery showed good results in Japanese patients

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Combined viscocanalostomy and cataract surgery demonstrated advantages over cataract surgery alone in a study in Japanese patients with glaucoma. The combined procedure provided good postop visual acuity with minimal complications and significantly lower IOP than cataract surgery alone, the study authors found.

Masami Park, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the Sensho-kai Eye Institute in Kyoto tracked the IOPs and the incidence of complications after combined viscocanalostomy and cataract surgery compared to cataract surgery alone in 206 Japanese eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

The combined surgery group had a larger reduction in IOP than the cataract-only group, the study authors found. Visual outcomes were similar. Postop complications such as hyphema and fibrin formation were more common in the combined surgical group, but these complications were not vision threatening, the study authors said.

The study is published in the Journal of Glaucoma.