Shared decision making can reduce overtreatment, which places an unnecessary burden on the healthcare system and places the patient at risk of an...
December 09, 2024
Colorism refers to the difference in social treatment between light-skinned and dark-skinned people. This sociological concept is a result of...
November 10, 2024
Gonioscopy is the clinical standard for detecting patients at risk for primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG). However, anterior chamber angle...
October 13, 2024
The Science behind the Tip In contrast to underdiagnosis, which has been described in population-based studies as affecting 50% or more of glaucoma...
September 12, 2024
The Science behind the Tip One of the key elements in the diagnosis and monitoring of glaucoma is the assessment of the topographic agreement...
July 14, 2024
The Science behind the Tip Most of the time, disc hemorrhages in patients with glaucoma are related to the disease itself. Although the strong...
June 16, 2024
The Science behind the Tip The objective of clinical intervention in patients with glaucoma is to slow down disease progression. Intraocular...
May 15, 2024
The Science behind the Tip Systemic β-blockers could reach the ciliary body epithelium and are associated with lower intraocular pressure. Thus,...
April 15, 2024
The Science behind the Tip The increase in the practice of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) has brought attention to rare side effects such as...
March 14, 2024
The Science behind the Tip Gonioscopy remains the gold standard for confirming iridotrabecular contact and diagnosing angle closure.1 AS-OCT and...
February 12, 2024
The Science behind the Tip The identification of an individual´s genetic risk of a disease is increasingly recognized as a tool in disease risk...
January 15, 2024
The Science behind the Tip Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma are not uncommon in cases of cicatricial conjunctivitis (CC) such as...
December 17, 2023
The Science behind the Tip Systemic vascular dysfunction in XFS patients and statistically significant associations of systemic diseases with XFS...
November 15, 2023
The Science behind the Tip OCT angiography (OCTA) has gained great interest in glaucoma diagnosis (1, 2) and follow up(3). However, several...
October 15, 2023
The Science behind the Tip Thanks to its high reproducibility,1-3 OCT has become widely used for monitoring structural optic nerve changes in...
September 15, 2023
The Science behind the Tip Patients undergoing anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) therapy for age-related macular degeneration or...
August 31, 2023
Vitreous traction can cause artifacts that may obscure RNFL thinning, potentially leading to misinterpretation of disease progression. Studies have...
July 30, 2023
Peripapillary retinoschisis (PPRS) occurs significantly more frequently in glaucoma patients (1%-6%) compared to healthy subjects (0.5%) (1). The...
June 30, 2023
Differentiating between glaucomatous and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies can be quite challenging. In addition to a thorough clinical history...
May 31, 2023
The mechanism is thought to be an idiosyncratic reaction to sulphonamides, similar to that which can occur with drugs such as topiramate. The...
April 21, 2023
Identifying those patients at greater risk of disease progression is a key step in glaucoma management algorithms. Several variables have been...
March 31, 2023
Hypotony is a recognised complication following filtration surgery such as trabeculectomy (1). Where this is due to over-filtration, intervention...
February 28, 2023
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects almost 1 billion people aged 30-69 years worldwide, of which 425 million have a moderate to severe OSA (1)....
January 31, 2023
Glaucoma occurs in up to 70% of patients with iridocorneal endothelial syndrome (ICE) (1). Given the high failure rate of medical treatment,...
December 30, 2022
Publishing date: November 2022 Primary congenital glaucoma leads to blindness if not treated adequate. Typical symptoms are epiphora, photophobia...
December 19, 2022