Cataract surgery in patients treated with ocular hypotensive medications results in short-term decrease in IOP but long-term decrease in medications, Steven Mansberger, MD, MPH, said at the virtual American Glaucoma Society annual meeting.
Mansberger and colleagues compared 149 eyes of 92 patients in the treatment arm of the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) who underwent cataract surgery with 1,004 eyes of 531 participants in the control arm who had not undergone cataract surgery.
For comparison, in the cataract group, a split date was considered to be the study visit date when
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