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Not every ring scotoma is due to glaucoma
In advanced stages of glaucoma, patients may present with an annular scotoma, also known as ring...
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Relationship between Blood Pressure and Rates of Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression
Purpose: To examine the relationship between systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) and the rate...
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Comparison of Outcomes of Deep Sclerectomy, Canaloplasty, and Viscocanaloplasty: A Multi-Centred Study
Prcis: Deep sclerectomy (DS) and canaloplasty provide better intraocular pressure (IOP) control...
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Macular Oxygen Saturation in Glaucoma Using Retinal Oximetry of Visible Light Optical Coherence Tomography: A Pilot Study
Purpose: A cross-sectional pilot study to compare macular oxygen saturation (sO2) and associated...
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Childhood Glaucoma
SIG Corner Editor: Hana Abouzeid Chair: Esther Hoffmann Co-chair: Zeynep Aktas Childhood glaucoma...
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Avoid premature removal of the intraluminal suture in glaucoma drainage devices to minimize the risk of hypotony
While prolene suture removal is an effective method for reducing IOP at the slit-lamp, removing...
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Biomechanics-Function in Glaucoma: Improved Visual Field Predictions from IOP-Induced Neural Strains
Purpose: (1) To assess whether neural tissue structure and biomechanics could predict functional...
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Validation of a Visual Field Prediction Tool for Glaucoma: A Multicenter Study Involving Patients With Glaucoma in the United Kingdom
Purpose: A previously developed machine-learning approach with Kalman filtering technology...
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Fatal beauty: which cosmetics are your glaucoma patients using?
Colorism refers to the difference in social treatment between light-skinned and dark-skinned...
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The relationship between multiple deprivation and severity of glaucoma at diagnosis
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with higher odds of chronic diseases, with...
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Be aware of the potential influence of the vitreoretinal interface when interpreting OCT images of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in glaucoma patients
Vitreous traction can cause artifacts that may obscure RNFL thinning, potentially leading to...
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Placebo effect and its determinants in ocular hypotensive therapy: meta-analysis and multiple meta-regression analysis
Author(s): Sooyeon Choe (1), Young Kook Kim (2), Woosuk Chung (3), Donghyun Ko (3), Marvin Lee...
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Not every ring scotoma is due to glaucoma
In advanced stages of glaucoma, patients may present with an annular scotoma, also known as ring scotoma, where the retinal sensitivity is...
March 14, 2025
Avoid premature removal of the intraluminal suture in glaucoma drainage devices to minimize the risk of hypotony
While prolene suture removal is an effective method for reducing IOP at the slit-lamp, removing it too early can lead to postoperative hypotony and...
February 14, 2025
Insertion of an intraluminal ripcord suture to prevent early post operative hypotony
Hypotony is a common complication associated with the implantation of various unvalved glaucoma drainage devices. To reduce the risk of this...
January 15, 2025
How do you communicate numbers to your glaucoma patient?
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
Fatal beauty: which cosmetics are your glaucoma patients using?
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
Using anterior segment OCT to risk-stratify primary angle closure suspects
Gonioscopy is the clinical standard for detecting patients at risk for primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG). However, anterior chamber angle...
October 13, 2024
Balancing Glaucoma Care: Tackling Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment to Preserve Patient Quality of Life
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
Consider a concomitant neurological disease in a glaucoma patient when there is only partial topographic agreement between structure and function.
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
Tip: Not every peripapillary hemorrhage is a sign for glaucoma
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
Disease progression, irrespective of intraocular pressure, should guide escalation of treatment in glaucoma
The Science behind the Tip The objective of clinical intervention in patients with glaucoma is to slow down disease progression. Intraocular...
May 15, 2024
Systemic β-blockers may have a heterogenous impact on glaucoma patients
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
Beware of acute corneal oedema after SLT in selected patients
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
Various factors can result in discordance between gonioscopy and Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) when assessing angle closure
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
Identifying a high polygenic risk for glaucoma will allow us to identify glaucoma patients at risk for rapid structural and functional glaucoma progression
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
Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty can be considered lifesaving treatment for the cornea when severe ocular disease co-exists with glaucoma
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
Exfoliation (pseudoexfoliation) syndrome (XFS, with or without glaucoma) is associated with clinically significant non-vascular systemic diseases.
The Science behind the Tip Systemic vascular dysfunction in XFS patients and statistically significant associations of systemic diseases with XFS...
November 15, 2023
Consider sources of bias when using OCT angiography
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
OCT Imaging of glaucoma patients at 6-month intervals may enhance progression detection while reducing the healthcare burden of more frequent testing
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
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Glaucoma control can be detrimentally affected by recurrent anti- VEGF treatment for macular degeneration or diabetic macular oedema
The Science behind the Tip Patients undergoing anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) therapy for age-related macular degeneration or...
August 31, 2023
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Be aware of the potential influence of the vitreoretinal interface when interpreting OCT images of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in glaucoma patients
Vitreous traction can cause artifacts that may obscure RNFL thinning, potentially leading to misinterpretation of disease progression. Studies have...
July 30, 2023
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When interpreting RNFL OCT scans, attention should be paid to the presence of peripapillary retinoschisis
Peripapillary retinoschisis (PPRS) occurs significantly more frequently in glaucoma patients (1%-6%) compared to healthy subjects (0.5%) (1). The...
June 30, 2023
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OCT can be a helpful additional tool to differentiate glaucoma from other optic neuropathi
Differentiating between glaucomatous and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies can be quite challenging. In addition to a thorough clinical history...
May 31, 2023
Oral acetazolamide (Diamox) is known to lower intraocular pressure, but it can very rarely cause acute bilateral angle closure with severely elevated intraocular pressure
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
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Use corneal hysteresis to identify high-risk glaucoma patients
Identifying those patients at greater risk of disease progression is a key step in glaucoma management algorithms. Several variables have been...
March 31, 2023
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Transconjunctival suturing techniques to treat over-filtration following trabeculectomy
Hypotony is a recognised complication following filtration surgery such as trabeculectomy (1). Where this is due to over-filtration, intervention...
February 28, 2023