Automated Direct Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty: First Prospective Clinical Trial.

Purpose: Direct selective laser trabeculoplasty (DSLT) is a rapid, noncontact automated procedure performed directly through the limbus without gonioscopy. In this first nonrandomized clinical trial we assessed its safety and ability to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP).

Methods: Fifteen patients (15 eyes: 10 with open-angle glaucoma [OAG], 4 with ocular hypertension, and 1 with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma), naive or after medication washout, with an IOP ≥22 mm Hg, underwent DSLT by irradiation with 100 or 120 sequential noncontact 532-nm, Q-switched laser shots (0.

Non-contact direct selective laser trabeculoplasty: light propagation analysis.

Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), used to treat glaucoma and ocular hypertension, requires the use of a gonioscope placed on the cornea to visualize and irradiate the trabecular meshwork (TM). Alternatively, non-contact direct SLT (DSLT) irradiates the TM through the overlying tissues. Here we analyze this innovative procedure using analytical modeling and Monte Carlo simulations to quantify the laser energy reaching the TM through the overlying tissues.

Intraocular pressure measurements and biomechanical properties of the cornea in eyes after penetrating keratoplasty.

Purpose: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements obtained using the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT; Haag-Streit), the Tono-Pen XL (Reichert, Inc), and the ocular response analyzer (ORA; Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments), and to determine the influence of corneal factors on IOP measurements in eyes that had undergone penetrating keratoplasty (PK).

Design: Consecutive, prospective study.

Methods: Study population.

Scanning laser Doppler flowmetry of nonperfused regions of the optic nerve head in patients with glaucoma.

Background And Objective: To examine the reliability of scanning laser Doppler flowmetry in measuring capillary flow in regions of the optic nerve head, which are manifested differently by confocal tomographic angiography.

Patients And Methods: Capillary blood flow of the optic nerve head was measured in 16 eyes of 13 patients who had glaucoma with moderate to severe visual field defects. Blood flow measurements were taken by the scanning laser Doppler flowmeter and analyzed using the automatic full-field perfusion image analyzer (AFFPIA).