Quantitative assessment of changes in trabeculectomy blebs after laser suture lysis using anterior segment coherence tomography.

Purpose: To quantify changes in bleb morphology after laser suture lysis (LSL) using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective observational case series of patients who underwent trabeculectomy surgery with mitomycin-C and required subsequent LSL. Subjects were assessed before and immediately after LSL, and at 3 months after LSL.

Management of angle closure glaucoma.

Primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) is equally prevalent in Indian in Asian population as the primary open angle glaucoma. Eighty-six percent of people with PACG are in Asia, with approximately 48.0% in China, 23.

Micropulse transscleral diode laser cyclophotocoagulation in the treatment of refractory glaucoma.

Background: Transscleral diode laser cyclophotocoagulation (TSCPC) is an established method of treatment for refractory glaucoma, but is associated with significant complications. This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of a new form of TSCPC using micropulse diode laser and trans-pars plana treatment with a novel contact probe.

Methods: Prospective interventional case series of 40 eyes of 38 consecutive patients with refractory glaucoma treated with micropulse TSCPC with a novel probe.

Imaging of the anterior segment in glaucoma.

Although constituting only about a quarter of all glaucoma, angle closure glaucoma causes a disproportionate amount of visual morbidity and is predicted to be responsible for almost half of bilateral blindness by 2020. Early detection and treatment of angle closure significantly improves visual prognosis. Identification of eyes at risk of angle closure currently relies on opportunistic case detection, often by gonioscopy.

High-definition imaging of trabeculectomy blebs using spectral domain optical coherence tomography adapted for the anterior segment.

Background: The aim of this work was to image trabeculectomy blebs using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT).

Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study, patients who had undergone trabeculectomy with at least 3 months of follow up were included. Blebs were imaged using an adapted SDOCT system (Cirrus HD-OCT, Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc.

Rates of neuroretinal rim and peripapillary atrophy area change: a comparative study of glaucoma patients and normal controls.

Objective: To compare the rates of global and sectoral neuroretinal rim area (NRA) and peripapillary atrophy area (PPAA) change in open-angle glaucoma patients and normal control subjects and to determine the relationship between rates of NRA and PPAA change.

Design: Prospective, longitudinal cohort study of cases and controls.

Participants And Controls: Ninety-four patients with open-angle glaucoma and 54 control subjects.

Changes in anterior segment morphology in response to illumination and after laser iridotomy in Asian eyes: an anterior segment OCT study.

Aim: Using the anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) to quantify changes in anterior segment morphology going from light to dark and following laser iridotomy (LI).

Methods: Prospective observational study. 17 consecutive subjects without peripheral anterior synechiae undergoing LI were evaluated using gonioscopy and AS-OCT.

Experience with the use of Baerveldt and Ahmed glaucoma drainage implants in an Asian population.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Baerveldt and Ahmed glaucoma drainage implants in Asian patients with refractory glaucoma.

Design: Retrospective nonrandomized study.

Participants: Forty-one patients.