Glaucoma News

Long-term undiagnosed pigmentary dispersion syndrome can lead to visual disasters. Here, we hope to provide some guidelines for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

NEW YORK — In a presentation at OSN New York, Valerie Trubnik, MD, FACS, discusses the benefits that home tonometry may offer patients and ophthalmologists in glaucoma treatment.

The top Healio glaucoma-related items this year covered the association between acute angle-closure glaucoma and certain medications, as well as a discussion about a needed paradigm shift in the approach to glaucoma treatment.

Five Medicare Administrative Contractors have withdrawn their final local coverage determinations for micro-invasive glaucoma surgery that were scheduled to take effect on Jan. 29, 2024, according to a press release from Sight Sciences.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Renee Bovelle, MD, discusses real-world insights on the use of Dextenza.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Richard A. Lewis, MD, of ViaLase discusses femtosecond laser image-guided high-precision trabeculotomy for the treatment of glaucoma.

A new study has shown that Orbis International’s online course helps nonophthalmic health care workers, who are already trained to recognize diabetic retinopathy, identify signs of glaucoma comparable to ophthalmologists.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Fritz H. Hengerer, MD, PhD, discusses the 7-year efficacy of cataract surgery with iStent inject and implantation of the Glaukos device as a stand-alone procedure.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Mariam Maghribi of Atia Vision and Shifamed, delivers updates from each company including developments for the OmniVu IOL system.

SAN FRANCISCO — Glaucoma programs can take notes from cataract services to improve detection, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.