American Glaucoma Society Meeting

WASHINGTON — The use of digital fundus photography in a newly designed model of a Pondicherry eye screening camp better improved case detection, referral and follow-up rates for posterior segment diseases such as glaucoma, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Patients who better adhered to topical glaucoma medications over time experienced a slower rate of visual field decline compared with patients with poor adherence to their medications, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Two conventional machine learning algorithms and two convolutional neural network models achieved high glaucoma diagnostic performances by reading full retinal nerve fiber layer thickness maps, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Traditional glaucoma surgery will result in endothelial cell loss, but surgeons can be aware of potential risk factors and take steps to help limit the amount of loss, a speaker said here.

WASHINGTON — Patients with advanced open-angle glaucoma experienced a sustained IOP and medication reduction after undergoing cyclophotocoagulation combined with trabecular meshwork bypass MIGS, according to the co-author of a poster here.

WASHINGTON — Patients with glaucoma may have an increased prevalence of certain central neurodegenerative diseases, such as various types of non-Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Implantation of the Xen gel stent can effectively control IOP in patients with glaucoma in the long term, but the stent also demonstrates potentially high rates of reoperation and bleb-related infections, a speaker said here.

WASHINGTON — Patients undergoing Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation who received intraoperative and postoperative mitomycin C experienced better IOP control and required fewer glaucoma drops for up to 12 months after surgery, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — The difficulty of obtaining a correct IOP reading, the risks involved with anesthesia and the challenges of classifying pediatric glaucoma can make the treatment course for a pediatric patient complicated, according to a speaker here.