Canaloplasty modified to treat patients with disrupted Schlemm’s canal

Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma who have a disrupted Schlemm’s canal wall due to prior glaucoma surgery may benefit from a modified non-filtering canaloplasty technique.“The premise condition of successful standard canaloplasty is the circumferential dilation of Schlemm’s canal and the placement of the suture,” Ningli Wang, MD, PhD, president of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society, said. “However, this is not practical for primary open-angle glaucoma patients with disrupted Schlemm’s canal, who have higher failure and incidence of complications when they receive repeated glaucoma filtering surgeries.”