Kahook Dual Blade reduces IOP with and without phaco

SAN FRANCISCO — The Kahook Dual Blade procedure, with or without phacoemulsification, reduced IOP at 18 months, even more so in eyes with pseudoexfoliation, according to a poster presented here.
“[We found] that 30% of eyes had an IOP reduction greater than 18% to 20%, and 60% were able to get off one drop,” first author Faith A. Birnbaum, MD, of Duke Eye Center, told Healio.com/OSN at the American Glaucoma Society annual meeting.
Of 116 eyes of 100 patients, the Kahook Dual Blade procedure (New World Medical) was performed with phacoemulsification in 93 eyes or alone in 23