Glaucoma

Digital education through CheckedUp interactive screens resulted in better understanding of glaucoma and glaucoma interventions as compared with verbal information, according to a poster presentation at Real World Ophthalmology.

NEW ORLEANS — The combination of a custom gonioscopy lens and a commercially available OCT allowed researchers to visualize the iridocorneal angle, according to research presented at Academy ’23.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD, discusses reimbursement issues for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery.

A 34-year-old man was referred to the New England Eye Center for incidentally found iris atrophy and corectopia in the right eye, along with cataracts in each eye.

When I am performing tests to determine a patient’s glaucoma status — visual fields, retinal nerve fiber layer measurements on OCT, fundus photography, etc — I will also examine their ocular surface and do meibomian gland imaging.

Calcium channel blocker use was associated with an average 39% higher odds of glaucoma, as well as thinner inner retinal thickness, in a cross-sectional study of UK Biobank data.

Selective laser trabeculoplasty can safely and effectively be used as primary intervention for treatment of open-angle glaucoma or as replacement for medications, according to a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

For more than 50 years, trabeculectomy has been the gold standard in the management of severe glaucoma.

In the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN, we explore trabeculectomy as a time-honored glaucoma procedure.

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — A study tested the hypothesis that Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings utilizing the sfumato technique may be perceived differently by people with central vision loss vs. peripheral vision loss.