Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DANA POINT, Calif. — Tube shunt surgery had a higher success rate than trabeculectomy with mitomycin C after 5 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Baerveldt tube-shunt surgery for glaucoma is cost-effective, despite the fact that it is more expensive than trabeculectomy, the gold-standard treatment, a new study has found. The ...

April 26, 2012 — Tube shunt surgery for glaucoma patients who had already undergone eye surgery was less likely to fail than trabeculectomy in a 5-year, 212-patient trial conducted at 17 clinical ...

To analyze 12- and 24-month visual acuity, intraocular pressure, and complications associated with combined pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and glaucoma tube shunt placement in eyes with glaucoma. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ophthalmologic opinions vary on the role and effectiveness of minimally invasive surgeries for treatment of ...

Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve that can lead to vision loss and permanent blindness. Without proper treatment, a person with glaucoma loses peripheral vision first, followed by the loss of ...

The either/or dilemma for glaucoma patients has always been difficult: either daily eye drops to keep blindness at bay or an invasive surgery that risks complications. Now, a Minnesota eye specialist ...

To investigate serial changes of the Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implant tube in the anterior chamber by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). Patients who had received AGV ...

Christine Funke, MD, a glaucoma specialist at Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center in Phoenix, Arizona, discussed how minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) has been able to offer her patients better ...

Did you know about an eye condition that can lead to blindness if left untreated? Glaucoma, an ocular condition, causes harm to the optic nerve, the link between the eye and the brain. It is a ...

CHICAGO -- Traditional glaucoma surgery more than doubled the likelihood of treatment success for elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) as compared with the more widely used minimally invasive glaucoma ...