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The trial is designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of Avisi Technologies' investigational VisiPlate device in ...

Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can lead to vision loss and blindness. It is caused by damage to ...

Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify the early postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) that predicts low pressure control after a trabeculectomy with mitomycin C. Materials and Methods ...

Glaucoma treatments start with drops, which can prove effective for many years. If the drops start to fail then patients can move on to a trabeculectomy, which involves surgery to make a small ...

Tube shunts have been available for decades as an alternative to trabeculectomy in patients in whom initial glaucoma surgery failed or in those with other risk factors for surgical failure.

Ophthalmology may experience a workforce inadequacy of 30% by 2035. Glaucoma fellows receive “excellent training” but may not perform enough trabeculectomies. With the prevalence of glaucoma ...