Glaukos has claimed a series of regulatory clearances in Europe for its micro-scale surgical implants to treat patients with glaucoma, expanding the company’s reach overseas. The green lights under ...

FDA has announced it has approved the first glaucoma stent for use with cataract surgery, according to a news release. The iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System, model GTS100R/L, manufactured by ...

Glaukos secured a new FDA clearance for its miniaturized stent system designed for glaucoma to help drain the inner eye of built-up fluids and normalize intraocular pressure. The company had received ...

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Mitchell C. Shultz, MD, discusses a study that compared the iStent inject W and Hydrus microstent to treat glaucoma in patients who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW YORK — In a presentation at OSN New York, Manjool Shah, MD, discusses how surgeons can identify patients ...

Worldwide, more than one million trabecular microbypass stents have been implanted in combination with cataract surgery. Despite glaucoma medications and prior microbypass stenting, target IOP may no ...

Efficacy is higher for the Xen 45 gel stent implant as a standalone procedure than combined with cataract surgery. The Xen 45 gel stent implant provides effective, long-term treatment for open-angle ...

Over a 5-year period, the annual rate of progression in vision loss averaged 0.49 dB with surgery alone, compared with 0.26 dB with surgery plus a Schlemm's canal microstent (Hydrus). The results ...

ZURICH, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Novartis eye care unit Alcon is voluntarily withdrawing its CyPass Micro-Stent after follow-up clinical data showed patients using the product experienced statistically ...

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.

This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see ...