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  2. BrightFocus Foundation - Wikipedia

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    BrightFocus Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Clarksburg, Maryland.BrightFocus funds research in an effort to discover cures for Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration and glaucoma, and provides information and free English and Spanish resources to increase awareness about these diseases.

  3. Trabeculoplasty - Wikipedia

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    Trabeculoplasty is a laser treatment for glaucoma. It is done on an argon laser equipped slit lamp, using a Goldmann gonioscope lens mirror. Specifically, an argon laser is used to improve drainage through the eye's trabecular meshwork, from which the aqueous humour drains. This helps reduce intraocular pressure caused by open-angle glaucoma. [1]

  4. Glaucoma surgery - Wikipedia

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    Glaucoma is a group of diseases affecting the optic nerve that results in vision loss and is frequently characterized by raised intraocular pressure (IOP). There are many glaucoma surgeries, and variations or combinations of those surgeries, that facilitate the escape of excess aqueous humor from the eye to lower intraocular pressure, and a few ...

  5. Novartis says glaucoma stent setback will not derail Alcon ...

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    Novartis' eye care unit Alcon is withdrawing a surgical stent for glaucoma patients after clinical data showed it may damage the eye, but the Swiss drugmaker said the move would not affect plans ...

  6. Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery - Wikipedia

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    The Hydrus Microstent is an implantable MIGS device for the treatment of primary open angle glaucoma; implantation of this device can be performed in conjunction with cataract surgery. [30] The Hydrus Microstent is the longest of the MIGS devices (8-millimeter long implant), and similar to the iStent it is designed to increase trabecular outflow.

  7. National Eye Institute - Wikipedia

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    Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study: This study compared the effects of medical treatment to early filtration surgery in newly diagnosed open-angle glaucoma. It found that increased eye pressure was significantly decreased in both the medically and surgically treated groups, with the surgery group having a larger decrease.

  8. Trabeculectomy - Wikipedia

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    Trabeculectomy is the most common invasive glaucoma surgery. It is highly effective in the treatment of advanced glaucoma as demonstrated in major glaucoma studies. [citation needed] Even if a prior trabeculectomy has failed a second trabeculectomy can be performed at a different site. If scarring is the main reason, anti-fibrotic and anti ...

  9. Netarsudil - Wikipedia

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    Netarsudil, sold under the brand name Rhopressa among others, is a medication for the treatment of glaucoma. [1] [2] [3] In the United States, in December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a 0.02% ophthalmic solution for the lowering of elevated intraocular pressure in people with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

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