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News Flashes IGR 12-1

Gene therapy could be the panacea of all treatments


Electrical activity enhances retinal ganglion cells' responsiveness to trophic factors


Injecting microbeads in the anterior chamber creates a reproducible, and easily replicated rodent model of IOP elevation


Drye eyes are more common among glaucoma patients and subjects with drye eyes have higher rates of adjunctive glaucoma treatment


Hypercholesteremia and its treatment is protective against the development of progressive NTG


Bevacizumab can reduce post-operative scarring


There is no significant effect on outflow facility with a change in body position


The presence of metabolic syndrome(MS) may have a significant effect on IOP, and treatment of MS may lower IOP


The exact mechanism of the water drinking test is still unknown; expansion of the choroidal bed may cause an increased IOP


SD-OCT is a powerful technique to study the deformation of the lamina cribrosa in living patients


No single methodology can provide information on blood flow in all relevant ocular vascular beds (ES)


Provocative gonioscopy and channelography may become diagnostic tools in routine canaloplasty (ES)


Static anatomic risk factors do not fully explain the occurrence of ACG in patients with narrow angles


Intravitreal injection of BDNF has a modest and transient effect on cat ganglion cell survival one week after crush


Scanning laser ophthalmoscope microperimetry and the central 10-2 program of the Humphrey Field Analyzer have similarities for evaluating macular function in glaucoma patients


The contributory role of vascular factors in an optic nerve predisposed to glaucomatous damage cannot be excluded


In eyes with low IOPs, further reduction of the IOP by use of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors may not necessarily be beneficial


An association between CSF pressure and glaucoma has been demonstrated


Agents which interfere with the formation of actin microfilaments increase aqueous humor outflow and lower intraocular pressure


Patients with thin corneas must be watched more carefully


Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is designed to give a result after the first follow-up examination, while topographic change analysis (TCA) requires two or more follow-up examinations to ensure adequate specificity


Different technologies measure different aspects of glaucoma


Minimal incremental structural deterioration has significant functional consequences


Make sure you follow scrupulously this recipe and take your eye drops every day at the prescribed time: it's not only your sight you'll be preserving, it's your own life! Wouldn't this be a great line to boost patient compliance to glaucoma treatment?


'Whom to treat and whom to watch'; as with so many other questions in glaucoma: it depends


The existence of a reproducible, easily replicated rodent model of IOP elevation


Association between the use of IOP-lowering treatment and dry eye


A link between hypercholesterolemia and its treatment with the development of glaucoma


Non-adherent patients were less likely to feel the physician spent enough time with them


PNT does not allow a durable IOP reduction in uncontrolled POAG


We may be moving ever closer to clinically significant surgical IOP reduction without the hazards of a filtration bleb


The use of a biodegradable collagen implant in filtering surgery has not proven superior to routine trabeculectomy


When analyzing the results of a novel surgical technique or an innovative medical device efficiency, safety and risk profile should be compared to the well-established technique


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