Patients with advanced glaucoma should be offered trabeculectomy as their primary intervention, according to a study presented at the American Glaucoma Society meeting.
Anthony King, MD, presented data from the Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study in the United Kingdom.
“People presenting with advanced glaucoma are those people most likely to go blind during their lifetime,” he said. “There is some uncertainty about what the best primary intervention is.”
In the study, 453 patients with recently diagnosed advanced glaucoma were randomly assigned to undergo primary