The Latest Advancements in Glaucoma Care
Treating the Whole Eye
What is Glaucoma?
The increased pressure, called intraocular pressure, can damage the optic nerve, which transmits images to your brain. If the damage continues, glaucoma can lead to permanent vision loss. Without treatment, glaucoma can cause total permanent blindness within a few years.
What is Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery?
Glaucoma Surgery is needed to reduce pressure in the eyes by opening blocked drainage angles or creating a new opening that fluid can flow through to leave the eye. In some cases surgery may be done to relieve pain caused by glaucoma.
Traditional surgical options for glaucoma (trabeculectomy and tube shunt implantation) have a substantial number of potential complications, including hypotony, hyphema, bleb leakage, bleb infection, and endophthalmitis.
Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) provides intraocular pressure reduction for patients with mild-to-moderate glaucoma with a better safety profile than traditional incisional glaucoma surgery. These devices and procedures are often combined with cataract surgery or are completed as stand alone procedures. These are often covered by medical insurance companies.
Glaucoma Treatments
Introducing iDose TR
Vision Quest was the first in Idaho to implant this tiny, groundbreaking device. The iDose TR delivers a steady dose of medication directly into the eye over an extended time, negating or reducing the need for traditional eye drop medications. This FDA approved implant is a new treatment for open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
