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Less is more with glaucoma surgery
The glaucoma surgery procedure profile has expanded, with many choices for the surgeon to utilize to assist in the management of sight-threatening glaucoma, while decreasing the potential iatrogenic and procedure-specific complications that can be associated with some of these procedures, depending on their degree of invasiveness. Microinvasive glaucoma surgery, as the name implies, is relatively less invasive compared with filtration procedures, and hence the subset of patients who have both glaucoma and cataract can greatly benefit from a single combined surgical procedure that addresses