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How do you communicate numbers to your glaucoma patient?
Shared decision making can reduce overtreatment, which places an unnecessary burden on the...
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Validating and updating the OHTS-EGPS model predicting 5-year glaucoma risk among ocular hypertension patients using electronic records
Objective: To validate and update the OHTS-EGPS model predicting risk of conversion from OHT to...
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The Strain Response to Intraocular Pressure Increase in the Lamina Cribrosa of Control Subjects and Glaucoma Patients
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure biomechanical strains in the lamina cribrosa...
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Psychological Stress and Intraocular Pressure in Glaucoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose: To evaluate the intraocular pressure (IOP) behavior after applying a standardized...
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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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Plasma metabolite profile for primary open-angle glaucoma in three US cohorts and the UK Biobank
Author(s): Oana A Zeleznik ° (1,2), Jae H Kang ° (3,4), Jessica Lasky-Su (3,4), A Heather...
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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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Angle Closure SIG
SIG Corner Editor: Hana Abouzeid Chair: John Thygesen Co-chair: Gus Gazzard The goal of this SIG...
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Comparison of Trabeculectomy Outcomes Performed by Residents in Training and Ophthalmologists
Author(s): Mário Lima-Fontes (1), Ana Faria-Pereira (1), Mariana Leuzinger-Dias (1), Marta Inês...
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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...
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Glaucoma and small optic discs: a diagnosis challenge
The Science behind the Tip Diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma is challenging in eyes with small optic discs (height < 1.2 mm or surface area...
April 30, 2007
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Tracking structural abnormalities is more important in early glaucoma than at the end of the disease
The Science behind the Tip Diagnosing glaucoma and documenting progression at an early stage of the disease is a key thing to successful glaucoma...
March 31, 2007
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Target pressure is now an accepted part of standard glaucoma care
The Science behind the Tip Target pressure is an estimate of the mean intraocular pressure (IOP) obtained with therapy that is expected to prevent...
December 31, 2006
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Early aggressive treatment is indicated in selected glaucoma cases
The Science behind the Tip In the Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial (EMGT)(1) patients treated had half of the progression risk of control patients....
November 30, 2006
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Check intraocular pressure up to several months after intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide
The Science behind the Tip Intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide (TA) is a relatively novel component of treatment of intraocular...
September 30, 2006
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Track structural changes in early disease and functional loss at the end of the disease
The Science behind the Tip Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma can go blind if they already have advanced field loss before they are...
September 30, 2006