Patients with primary open-angle glaucoma who undergo cataract surgery have an opportunity to have both phacoemulsification with IOL implantation and a glaucoma procedure performed at the same sitting.
This negates the need for a second visit to the operating room to perform a separate glaucoma surgical procedure.
This combined procedure provides the benefit of improving vision and decreasing IOP postoperatively, which can translate to less or no need for glaucoma drops, depending on the surgical result. When performing an iStent procedure (Glaukos), some areas of focus include good