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Cataract surgery first leads to better long-term maintenance of glaucoma
NEW YORK — Planning cataract surgery before glaucoma surgery leads to better long-term maintenance of glaucoma, according to a speaker here. In patients with narrow open-angle glaucoma with high IOP, cataract surgery deepens the angle, increases the anterior chamber, prevents peripheral anterior synechiae (PAS) and decreases IOP, Savak Teymoorian, MD, said at OSN New York 2014.