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Disruptive changes ahead in glaucoma space
All of us who do cataract surgery see a significant number of patients who have glaucoma as a comorbidity. At least 10% of patients who come to have cataract surgery also have a diagnosis of glaucoma or ocular hypertension, and a review of Medicare statistics suggests the number may approach 20% in the over-65-year-old population.During the first two decades of my practice, if a patient presented with combined cataract and glaucoma, I always recommended a combined phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy, because in those days I was invading prime conjunctiva by doing (Read more...)