Glaucoma

Kelly K. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO, and A. Paul Chous, OD, FAAO, recap the diverse topics at EyeCon 2023, emphasizing the collaborative spirit between optometrists and ophthalmologists in addressing issues such as myopia management, diabetic eye conditions, cataract surgery, and patient referrals.

Myopia as a glaucoma risk factor, and high myopia as a potential glaucoma mimicker, can be quite the clinical headache

As new treatment options continue to enter the glaucoma space, clinicians can provide the best care to each individual patient.

At AAOpt, Nate Lighthizer, OD, presents a variety of lectures and workshops on lasers and their use in optometry.

Gleb Sukhovolskiy discusses his 2023 AAOpt presentation, "Optometrist’s Guide to MIGS and the Continuing Evolution of Glaucoma Treatment."

At AAOpt, Justin Schweitzer, OD, FAAO, and Selina McGee, OD, FAAO, Dipl ABO, discuss the intersection of dry eye and glaucoma.

Patients with HTG had significantly fewer mtDNA copies per nuclear DNA.

Don’t forget to look at a patient’s optic nerve through a dilated pupil.

Evaluating images for quality, artifacts, and segmentation errors.

With this new funding, Smartlens gives the possibility of new treatment for glaucoma with miLens.

Dina Erickson, OD, FAAO, caught up with Peg Achenbach, OD, FAAO, while at the 2023 Victoria Conference to share highlights from her talk on glaucoma suspects.

Ami Halvorson, OD, caught up with Peg Achenbach, OD, FAAO, while at the 2023 Victoria Conference to share highlights from her talk on ophthalmic surgery options.

The financing will help advance the company’s novel treatment system for glaucoma and other chronic ophthalmic diseases.

Procedures in the pipeline hold greater appeal for cataract and refractive surgeons, patients.

At NOA 2023, Monique Barbour, MD, caught up with Optometry Times to tell us more about her presentation on the latest and greatest in glaucoma.

Justin Schweitzer, OD, FAAO, and Nathan Lighthizer, OD, provide key takeaways from their 2023 AOA presentation, "Beyond drops: Surgical considerations in glaucoma," which they will give alongside Walter Whitley, OD, MBA, FAAO.

The Laroche Glaucoma Risk Calculator is a valuable tool for glaucoma screenings both in the community and in optometrist offices.

The project, a collaboration with researchers from the University of Maryland, holds promise for advancing new and more tolerable drug treatments for common chronic blinding eye diseases, including glaucoma and macular degeneration.

Ophthalmology Times® spoke with Mitch Shultz, MD at ASCRS 2023 in San Diego where he shared insights from his presentation comparing patient results of the Hydrus stent and the iStent inject W with or without ABiC (or ab-interno canaloplasty).

Diagnostic test results may vary in the same patient on the same day.

The iDose TR, a micro-invasive intraocular implant designed to lower IOP in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension, has a PDUFA date of December 22, 2023.

In this recent study, Bharti Nihalani-Gangwani, MD, and Deborah VanderVeen, MD, reported that 29% developed glaucoma in a large infant cohort and the risk factors at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting in San Diego.

Xiongfei Liu, MD, is presenting a talk entitled, "Effectiveness and safety of combining 2 MIGS devices in patients with open angle glaucoma," at ASCRS 2023 in San Diego, California.

Jason Bacharach, MD, presented results at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting in San Diego, highlighting that a large phase 3 clinical trial demonstrated no relevant differences between the 2 formulations.