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News Flashes IGR 18-2

Pattern scanning laser trabeculoplasty involves application of a computer-generated arc-shaped laser pattern to the trabecular meshwork


An association between vitamin-D levels and risk for glaucoma has been observed in multiple populations


Evidence for the use of Ologen as an adjunct to trabeculectomy is still evolving


The difference between the two groups favored microstent implantation. However, this difference only was about 2 mmHg at 24 months


These data suggest that some recovery of RGC electrical function is possible, despite cellular injury as indicated by the persistent reduction of RNFL thickness


The use of more than one stent likely allows for aqueous to access a greater number of collector channels and, therefore, a greater IOP reduction


Short-term (single-day) assessment of IOP (and likely OPP) is unlikely to robustly characterize long-term variability of these parameters


Applying swimming goggle frames with the central plastic lens removed is a robust method to raise IOP ~10 mmHg acutely in humans noninvasively, while still allowing access to the cornea for IOP measurement and unimpeded imaging of the posterior pole


The Melbourne Rapid Fields perimetry software addresses perimetry limitations by changing fixation position during testing and increasing stimulus size based on eccentricity


There is a confounder in the design of this study that renders it useless at best and, perhaps even misleading


The relationship between short-term and long-term IOP flucations for the management of glaucoma remains unclear


The lower rigidity of the sclera could have also resulted in altered strain/stress relationships in these eyes


By 2050, half of the global population will be myopic, and one-fifth of those will be considered highly myopic (≥5 D)


Under the same growth conditions, mouse RGCs readily exhibited robust electrical activity while mouse stem cell-derived RGCs did not


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