Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Glaucoma Beyond First Line

A review of selective laser trabeculoplasty in glaucoma management, and when it is appropriate to consider as a treatment option.

Key Takeaways on Optimizing Glaucoma Management

Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Glaucoma Beyond First Line : Episode 15. Video. March 28, 2022. Key Takeaways on Optimizing Glaucoma Management.

Glaucoma Care Beyond the Basics: Advanced Tips and ...

Specifically, the concept of diurnal ocular perfusion pressure relates to the prescription of topical beta-blocker therapy for glaucoma. It is ...

Novel Approaches to Optimize Treatment Strategies in Glaucoma

The current understanding of glaucoma is limited, and only strategies that reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) have been shown to be effective in ...

Glaucoma and Compliance with Therapy: Strategies for and Barriers ...

Early and consistent therapy is crucial for the preservation of vision in patients with glaucoma. However, there are many factors that can ...

Should we reconsider first-line treatments for glaucoma in the setting ...

As aforementioned, OAG and ocular hypertension are habitually treated with standard first-line eye drops. However, due to its common side effects on the ocular ...

Glaucoma Treatment Strategies for Low-Resource Settings

Additional focus on physician-patient communication in developing countries may improve long-term outcomes of glaucoma management. In a study of ...

Maximizing cost-effectiveness by adjusting treatment strategy ...

In moderate glaucoma population, medical treatment presented the highest costs among treatment strategies. Both laser and surgery were highly ...

Glaucoma Management Strategies

combination formulations are labeled for and used as first-line or first adjunctive therapy. When added to prostaglandins, these multidrug combinations ...

Guidelines for the management of open‐angle glaucoma

The degree of visual field damage and how it develops over time determines the individual treatment strategy (Figure 1). The goal is to maintain ...

Therapeutic Strategies for Glaucoma - CRSToday

The treatment of glaucoma has progressed significantly over the past 10 years, but the basic tenets remain the same. The only treatment proven to lower IOP ...

Glaucoma Drugs And Complementary Treatments

After grading glaucoma severity and setting a target IOP goal, clinicians typically initiate medical therapy. “My approach to glaucoma treatment ...

Treatments for Open-Angle Glaucoma | BrightFocus Foundation

Treatments for open-angle glaucoma include medications (usually eye drops), laser trabeculoplasty (a procedure that improves drainage of eye fluid)

Adherence and Persistence: The Challenges for Glaucoma Medical ...

Suboptimal adherence and persistence to therapy are major challenges for patients treated with ocular hypotensive medications.

Optimizing patient-reported outcomes in glaucoma - ScienceDirect

1a and b) (Weinreb and Khaw, 2004). From pathophysiological and treatment standpoints, intraocular pressure (IOP) remains the disease's primary modifiable risk ...

Challenging the "Topical Medications-First” Approach to Glaucoma

Despite these significant and well-documented limitations, topical medical therapy remains the established first-line treatment for primary open ...

Novel Approaches to Optimize Treatment Strategies in Glaucoma

Although IOP-lowering treatments are most often effective, they come with the risk of side effects that affect adherence and patients' quality of life.

Different strategies and cost-effectiveness in the treatment of primar

Different strategies are available to lower intraocular pressure and include medical, laser, or surgical treatment in the form of topical or systemic ...

Next frontier in glaucoma: Beyond IOP-lowering treatments

Topical rho-kinase inhibitors can be used to relax the trabecular meshwork in the front of the eye, improve aqueous outflow, and lower IOP.

SLT Gains Traction as a First-Line Glaucoma Treatment

SLT can safely improve IOP in glaucoma and is gaining transaction as a first-line therapy for treating the disorder.