Glaucoma News

SAN DIEGO — While cuts to reimbursement, inflation and the threat of recession were seen by survey respondents as the biggest practice challenges, one respondent wrote “all these will affect the ability to see more patients and grow.”

NEW ORLEANS — Patients who used hypotensive medications had reduced corneal sensitivity measured via a noncontact esthesiometer, according to a poster presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Racial and ethnic minorities are diagnosed with glaucoma at earlier ages, according to a poster presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Greater use of certain types of alcohol is associated with elevated IOP but not glaucoma, according to a poster presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

VILAMOURA, Portugal — Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery with the PreserFlo microshunt leads to good IOP control with minimal anterior segment parameter variations, according to a study presented here.

Celanese has entered into an agreement with Glaukos to supply the VitalDose drug delivery platform for Glaukos’ iDose TR, according to a press release.

I am a retina specialist, so I am obviously partial to retinal diseases. However, I think we have already made a lot of headway in developing machine learning models for identifying diseases in the retina, and we are on our way to do more.

An artificial intelligence system helped screen patients for glaucoma using a smartphone-based fundus camera, according to research presented at the American Glaucoma Society meeting.

The first 2023 issue of the Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, and Glaucoma Surgery, which provides high-quality education for anterior segment surgeons, is now online.

Polygenic risk score is associated with an increased risk for primary open-angle glaucoma in patients with ocular hypertension, according to a speaker.