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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nitinol has arrived in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, making symptom management for the progressive eye disease safer and personalized.

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the CyPass Micro-Stent for the treatment of glaucoma. The stent, produced by Fort Worth, Texas-based Alcon, is a micro-invasive surgical device used ...

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.

There has been quite a bit of significant developments in the minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS) space recently. The most recent one came this week from Transcend Medical (Menlo Park, ...