Glaucoma is about many things, but most relate to a tiny piece of tissue called the trabecular meshwork, the exit filter for aqueous humor leaving the eye. A healthy trabecular meshwork (TM) permits ...
Over my 11 years in practice, I have watched glaucoma management evolve significantly. MIGS procedures have given us safer alternatives to traditional filtering surgery, but a gap has persisted. What ...
Nitinol has arrived in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, making symptom management for the progressive eye disease safer and personalized.
Immunofluorescence staining shows the layers of trabecular meshwork (red) and Schlemm’s canal endothelium (yellow) cells in a 3D “eye-on-a-chip” platform that mimics the flow of ocular fluids. The eye ...
A new study on glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, offers a fresh understanding of how the disease progresses and points the way toward new treatments. The study, published today in ...
The left image shows the trabecular meshwork as it can be seen in a doctor's office. The right image shows a portion of the same part of the eye in much greater detail using methods developed at IU.
Glaucoma is usually a chronic condition that is typically associated with raised intraocular pressure (IOP). The most common type of glaucoma in the UK is primary open-angle glaucoma. It leads to ...