Major surgeries such as trabeculectomy and shunts aren't the only options for treating glaucoma when medicines and laser treatments don't work. Minimally invasive surgery is at the forefront of newer ...

JACKSONVILLE - For the first time in Florida, patients with glaucoma have a new treatment option known as the Trabectome. The minimally invasive procedure, which is available at Mayo Clinic and takes ...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) -- A new procedure is helping to preserve vision for some people with glaucoma. Glaucoma is a silent thief, affecting 3 million Americans, slowly robbing them of their sight.

Stead added that while SLT is now the first treatment that is offered to patients, a range of topical medications in the form ...

"SLT is a widely used first-line laser therapy for glaucoma but relies on a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, which induces cellular ...

Glaucoma is a group of diseases that cause damage to the optic nerve structure inside of the eye. Glaucoma leads to irreversible loss of peripheral vision in early stages, which occurs without ...

An Oklahoma City surgeon with the Dean McGee Eye institute developed a procedure for Glaucoma surgery that's being used at hospitals around the globe. Dean McGee Clinical Professor Mahmoud A. Khaimi ...

ViaLase announced the first patient was treated in a U.S. IDE clinical trial evaluating its femtosecond laser trabeculotomy ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — A large retrospective analysis of more than 150,000 eyes from a national eye registry have shown that combining surgeries for glaucoma and cataract into one procedure didn't ...

Bill Westin underwent conventional surgery five years ago to address an infection and glaucoma in his left eye and save whatever vision possible. He lost some beforehand, which helps explain why he ...

Every patient represents a different set of circumstances with many variables, including type of glaucoma, severity of glaucoma, compliance and tolerance of medical management, need for quick visual ...