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Optic Disc Microvasculature Reduction and Visual Field Progression in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between optic disc vessel density (ODVD) reduction and...
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Consider cotton wool spots as potential triggers for (non-glaucomatous) nerve fibre bundle defects
It may be tempting to make a glaucoma diagnosis in the presence of a nerve fibre bundle defect...
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Risk Score Predicting Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients With Vascular Predisposition
Purpose: We tested the hypothesis that a questionnaire-based risk score predicts the prevalence...
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Not every ring scotoma is due to glaucoma
In advanced stages of glaucoma, patients may present with an annular scotoma, also known as ring...
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Relationship between Blood Pressure and Rates of Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression
Purpose: To examine the relationship between systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) and the rate...
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Comparison of Outcomes of Deep Sclerectomy, Canaloplasty, and Viscocanaloplasty: A Multi-Centred Study
Prcis: Deep sclerectomy (DS) and canaloplasty provide better intraocular pressure (IOP) control...
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Macular Oxygen Saturation in Glaucoma Using Retinal Oximetry of Visible Light Optical Coherence Tomography: A Pilot Study
Purpose: A cross-sectional pilot study to compare macular oxygen saturation (sO2) and associated...
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Childhood Glaucoma
SIG Corner Editor: Hana Abouzeid Chair: Esther Hoffmann Co-chair: Zeynep Aktas Childhood glaucoma...
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Avoid premature removal of the intraluminal suture in glaucoma drainage devices to minimize the risk of hypotony
While prolene suture removal is an effective method for reducing IOP at the slit-lamp, removing...
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Biomechanics-Function in Glaucoma: Improved Visual Field Predictions from IOP-Induced Neural Strains
Purpose: (1) To assess whether neural tissue structure and biomechanics could predict functional...
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Validation of a Visual Field Prediction Tool for Glaucoma: A Multicenter Study Involving Patients With Glaucoma in the United Kingdom
Purpose: A previously developed machine-learning approach with Kalman filtering technology...
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Fatal beauty: which cosmetics are your glaucoma patients using?
Colorism refers to the difference in social treatment between light-skinned and dark-skinned...
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Pericyte dysfunction and loss of interpericyte tunneling nanotubes promote neurovascular deficits in glaucoma
Author(s): Luis Alarcon-Martinez (1,2), Yukihiro Shiga (3,2), Deborah Villafranca-Baughman )3,2), Nicolas Belforte (3,2), Heberto Quintero (3,2),...
March 31, 2022
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Intraocular Pressure and Its Relation to Ocular Geometry: Results From the Gutenberg Health Study
Author(s): Esther M Hoffmann (1), Fidan Aghayeva (1), Felix M Wagner (1), Achim Fiess (1), Markus Nagler (2), Thomas Münzel (3,4), Philipp S Wild...
March 30, 2022
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When prescribing Latanoprost, don’t forget about potential cardiovascular side effects
Prostaglandin analogues are advised as first line treatment for chronic open angle glaucoma by the European Glaucoma Society Guidelines for their...
February 28, 2022
The Weiss ring, a major confounding factor for measurements of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness
Author(s): Min-Woo Lee (1), Min-Su Kim (2), Hwa-Young Yu (1), Kee-Sup Park (1), Young-Hoon Lee (1), Jung-Yeul Kim (3) 1 Department of...
February 28, 2022
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GWAS identifies two common loci associated with pigment dispersion syndrome/pigmentary glaucoma and implicate myopia in its development
Author(s): Mark J Simcoe (1), Ameet Shah (2), Baojian Fan (3), Hélène Choquet (4), Nicole Weisschuh (5), Naushin H Waseem (6), Chen Jiang (4),...
February 28, 2022
Neuroprotection SIG
SIG Corner Editor: Hana Abouzeid Chair: Maria Francesca Cordeiro Co-chair: Miriam Kolko SIG neuroprotection keeps an eye on new initiatives within...
February 21, 2022
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Unilateral ocular hypertension: have a look at the corneal endothelium
Unilateral ocular hypertension or glaucoma is often associated with secondary causes that should be explored to ascertain the visual prognosis and...
January 31, 2022
Diagnostic assessment of glaucoma and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies via optical texture analysis of the retinal nerve fibre layer
Author(s): Christopher Kai Shun Leung (1,2,3,4), Alexander Ka Ngai Lam (5), Robert Neal Weinreb (6), David F Garway-Heath (7), Marco Yu (8), Philip...
January 31, 2022
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Phase 1b Randomized Controlled Study of Short Course Topical Recombinant Human Nerve Growth Factor (rhNGF) for Neuroenhancement in Glaucoma: Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy Measure Outcomes
Author(s): Gala Beykin (1), Laurel Stell (1), Muhammad Sohail Halim (1), Mariana Nuñez (1), Lilia Popova (1), Bac T Nguyen (1), Sylvia L Groth (1),...
January 31, 2022
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Mind the depth – forward displacement of the lens-iris diaphragm and myopic shift after ophthalmic surgery is suggestive of aqueous misdirection
Aqueous misdirection is a serious condition with potentially higher prevalence than expected. Predominantly observed after ocular surgery,...
December 31, 2021
Attitudes towards polygenic risk testing in individuals with glaucoma
Author(s): Georgina L Hollitt (1), Owen M Siggs (2), Bronwyn Ridge (2), Miriam C Keane (2), David A Mackey (3), Stuart MacGregor (4), Alex W Hewitt...
December 31, 2021
Cellular crosstalk regulates the aqueous humor outflow pathway and provides new targets for glaucoma therapies
Author(s): Benjamin R Thomson (1,2), Pan Liu (1,2), Tuncer Onay (1), Jing Du (1,2), Stuart W Tompson (3), Sol Misener (1,2), Raj R Purohit (1,2),...
December 31, 2021
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Virtual Reality-Based and Conventional Visual Field Examination Comparison in Healthy and Glaucoma Patients
Author(s): Jan Stapelfeldt (1), Serife Seda Kucur (1), Nina Huber (1), René Höhn (2), Raphael Sznitman (1) 1 ARTORG Center for Biomedical...
December 30, 2021
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Exfoliation (pseudoexfoliation) syndrome (with or without glaucoma) is associated with clinically significant non-vascular systemic diseases
The association of systemic vascular dysfunction and vascular diseases with exfoliation syndrome have been extensively studied in the last decades....
December 01, 2021
Association Between Visual Field Damage and Gait Dysfunction in Patients With Glaucoma
Author(s): Jian-Yu E (1,2), Aleksandra Mihailovic (1), Catalina Garzon (1), Jennifer A Schrack (2,3), Tianjing Li (4), Sheila K West (1), Laura N...
November 30, 2021
GLIS1 regulates trabecular meshwork function and intraocular pressure and is associated with glaucoma in humans
Author(s): K Saidas Nair (# 1), Chitrangda Srivastava (# 2), Robert V Brown (# 2), Swanand Koli (3), Hélène Choquet (4), Hong Soon Kang (2),...
November 30, 2021
Unplanned Return to the Operating Room After Trabeculectomy
Author(s): Nur Cardakli (1), David S Friedman (2), Michael V Boland (3) 1 Glaucoma Center of Excellence, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins...
November 30, 2021
Exfoliation SIG
The goal of this SIG is to increase ophthalmologists’ knowledge on XFS and XFG, and to support the optimal clinical care in XFG in Europe. 1....
November 01, 2021
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Consider trabeculectomy as initial treatment for newly diagnosed advanced primary open angle glaucoma (POAG)
IOP control is of uttermost importance in advanced glaucoma to prevent blindness. The EGS guidelines recommend IOP in the low teens, e.g. 10-12mmHg...
October 31, 2021
In vivo imaging of the Schlemm's Canal and the response to Selective laser trabeculoplasty
Author(s): Toshit Varshney (1), Kishan Azmira (1), Shikha Gupta (1), Karthikeyan Mahalingam (1), Abhishek Singh (1), Dewang Angmo (1), Viney Gupta...
October 31, 2021
Preservation of vision after CaMKII-mediated protection of retinal ganglion cells
Author(s): 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. 2 Department of Neuroscience, Yale...
October 31, 2021
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Take a look at the deviation maps when assessing structural change in glaucoma
The structural analysis of the thickness of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and the inner layers of the posterior pole with optical...
September 30, 2021
Long-Term Outcomes of Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty for Open-Angle Glaucoma in the Caribbean
Author(s): Tony Realini (1), Hazel Shillingford-Ricketts (2), Darra Burt (3), Goundappa K Balasubramani (4) 1 West Virginia University Eye...
September 30, 2021
Agonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone enhances retinal ganglion cell protection induced by macrophages after optic nerve injury
Author(s): Ling-Ping Cen (1), Tsz Kin Ng (1,2,3), Jia-Jian Liang (1), Ciyan Xu (1), Xi Zhuang (1), Yu-Fen Liu (1,2), Shao-Lang Chen (1), Yanxuan Xu...
September 30, 2021
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The glaucoma intensive treatment study: interim results from an ongoing longitudinal randomized clinical trial
Author(s): Boel Bengtsson (1), Christina Lindén (2), Anders Heijl (1), Sabina Andersson-Geimer (1), Johan Aspberg (1), Gauti Jóhannesson (2,3) 1...
September 30, 2021