Glaucoma News

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD, provides an overview of the products and tools in the pipeline for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery.

A second non-implant MIGS intervention, namely canaloplasty and trabeculotomy, allows patients to achieve good IOP control if a prior trabecular micro-bypass stent has failed to maintain IOP as desired.

Patients who present with undiagnosed glaucoma at the emergency room, and are therefore more at risk for glaucoma-related blindness, are more likely to originate from underserved rural areas.

CHICAGO — In this exclusive surgical video for Healio/OSN, I. Paul Singh, MD, demonstrates a goniotomy using the new Sion surgical instrument, a manually operated bladeless device from Sight Sciences.

Amid all the anecdotes and discussions around our numerous options for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, hard data have the unique power to cut through the noise.

With support from Nova Eye Medical, a group of surgeons has launched a registry that will capture real-world data on canaloplasty procedures performed with the iTrack and iTrack Advance devices.

Smoking intensity was linked with decreased optic nerve vessel density in patients with glaucoma, according to a study in Journal of Glaucoma.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Mitchell C. Shultz, MD, discusses a study that compared the iStent inject W and Hydrus microstent to treat glaucoma in patients who have and have not undergone canaloplasty.

Once-daily dosing of NCX 470 demonstrated noninferiority compared with latanoprost in lowering IOP in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension in the phase 3 Mont Blanc clinical trial.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Ye Elaine Wang, MD, discusses MicroPulse transscleral laser therapy from Iridex.