FLigHT procedure shows safety, stability at 4 years

LONDON — In the first 12 patients treated, femtosecond laser image-guided high-precision trabeculotomy proved to be a long-term safe, noninvasive strategy for sustained IOP reduction in open-angle glaucoma.
Zoltan Z. Nagy, MD, PhD, FEBO, FACS, the surgeon who performed the first-in-human femtosecond laser image-guided high-precision trabeculotomy (FLigHT) procedure, presented the results of a prospective, single-center clinical trial at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
“We have 48 months of follow-up in 18 eyes of 12 patients with mild to advanced open-angle