To evaluate whether filtering surgery is effective in controlling the intraocular pressure of young aniridic patients with glaucoma, we retrospectively reviewed the charts of aniridic patients with glaucoma under the age of 40 years. We defined a good intraocular pressure control period as the time from surgery until IOP exceeded 20 mm Hg, with or without glaucoma medication. Twenty filtering s...

Using the now well established technique ALT is a safe and effective means of lowering IOP in eyes with POAG, pigmentary glaucoma, and exfoliative glaucoma though the effect diminishes with time. Pressure reduction with ALT is seldom greater than 30% and eyes with an IOP of more than 28 mm Hg are unlikely to be controlled for any length of time without additional treatment. ALT is probably most...

BACKGROUND MIGS have been developed as a surgical alternative for glaucomatous patients. PURPOSE To analyze the change in intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma medications using different MIGS devices (Trabectome, iStent, Excimer Laser Trabeculotomy (ELT), iStent Supra, CyPass, XEN, Hydrus, Fugo Blade, Ab interno canaloplasty, Goniscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy) as a solo procedu...

The satellite symposium ‘Role of Preservative-free Therapies in the Treatment of Glaucoma’ at the 2013 annual meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmology in Copenhagen included presentations from four leaders in the field of glaucoma treatment. The first of these stressed that among patients with glaucoma, 20–30 % have severe ocular surface disease (OSD). The risk of OSD is significantly i...

BACKGROUND Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antidepressants. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness globally and iatrogenic glaucoma has been implicated across disparate medication classes. Available studies that have sought to determine the association between SSRI exposure and glaucoma have provided mixed results. Th...

AIM To study the course of exfoliation and simplex glaucoma with respect to intraocular pressure (IOP) regulation and visual field survival after primary trabeculectomy. METHODS Postoperative IOP regulation and complications were analysed prospectively in 95 patients. Mean follow up was 46 months. Visual field survival was studied by high pass resolution perimetry (HRP) in a subsample of 28 p...

PURPOSE To evaluate changes in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness as measured by scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) after the use of medication to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucomatous or ocular hypertensive patients. METHODS The authors prospectively enrolled 37 eyes of 37 patients in whom IOP was reduced by more than 25% after the use of medication. The images were obtained befor...