When planning surgery for patients with cataracts and glaucoma, Douglas J. Rhee, MD, has several “rules of thumb” to consider when deciding whether to add a minimally invasive glaucoma procedure to phacoemulsification.
“If the patient preoperatively has an uncontrolled intraocular pressure [or] if the patient has a controlled intraocular pressure but requires three or more medications to keep it under control, you might want to consider adding a MIGS procedure,” Rhee said at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.
Rhee also considers MIGS in
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