When combined with cataract surgery, both Trabectome and a single Glaukos iStent reduce IOP and medication burden in glaucoma patients, but Trabectome may yield better results in the early postoperative period, according to a study.
The study, a retrospective interventional case series, included 45 patients with bilateral visually significant cataract and open-angle glaucoma. Patients were evaluated following same-surgeon surgery in which phacoemulsification with Trabectome was used in one eye and phacoemulsification with iStent was used in the contralateral eye.
In the early postoperative
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