• Glaucoma

    Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the world. It affects 78M people every year - expected to grow to 111M by 2040. More than 11 million people will be blinded due to glaucoma this year (13% of all glaucoma patients). There is no cure yet - there are only treatments to relieve symptoms. Advance of the disease can be substantially slowed through proper treatment. It's very important to act early because lost vision cannot be regained. 

  • surgery

    The most common surgical procedure used in open-angle glaucoma is a trabeculectomy (also known as filtration surgery). This procedure is invasive, requires years of surgical experience and is associated with numerous complications such as hyphema, high IOP or excessively low IOP (hypotony).

  • Treatment

    Most patients are initially treated with topical medication, but often this option is insufficient to reach the appropriate IOP, or is not tolerated due to side effects. Furthermore, in many third world countries medications are too costly and a one-time intervention is necessary. Also, low patient compliance with medications is a serious problem in glaucoma. Thus frequently, surgery becomes necessary.