NEW YORK — When compared with eyes without glaucoma, glaucomatous eyes have a statistically significant higher rate of laser capsulotomy, according to a study presented here.
“We looked at both glaucoma patients and non-glaucoma patients. There is a slightly higher rate of PCO formation in glaucomatous eyes regardless of whether they have a phaco alone vs. a phaco combination procedure with a MIGS procedure. However, glaucomatous eyes had a higher rate of YAG capsulotomy,” study co-author Cara E. Capitena Young, MD, told Healio.com/OSN at the American Glaucoma Society annual
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