Glaucoma News

Add-on low-dose prednisolone improves long-term disease activity and progression in senior patients with established rheumatoid arthritis, albeit with an increase in non-severe adverse events, according to data.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Zoltan Z. Nagy, MD, PhD, DSc, discusses femtosecond laser-assisted trabeculotomy to treat open-angle glaucoma.

Laser trabeculoplasty was described in 1979 and involved an argon modality to noninvasively treat the trabecular meshwork.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Priya Narang, MS, speaks on visual field testing using the Advanced Vision Analyzer from Elisar Vision Technology.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, John P. Berdahl, MD, encourages surgeons to consider MIGS as an option for their patients with glaucoma.

A subset of Hispanic patients within the larger GEMINI study confirmed the good outcomes of combined canaloplasty and trabeculotomy performed with the Omni surgical system at the time of cataract surgery.

A 73-year-old white woman was referred to the retina service at the New England Eye Center for consideration of pars plana vitrectomy and lensectomy in the right eye for a hypermature cataract and angle-closure glaucoma.

DENVER — Prospectively recorded falls could help predict future falls for patients with glaucoma, according to a study presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Nir Shoham-Hazon, MD, discusses a study showing micropulse laser treatment to be safe and effective in treating glaucoma.

DENVER — Results from visual field testing with Heru’s augmented reality headset, re:Vive, correlate well with Humphrey SITA Fast, with comparable wait time, Nadine Rady said here at ARVO.