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ArticleOphthalmology and therapy2025

An Emerging Multi-mechanism and Multi-modal Approach in Interventional Glaucoma Therapy.

J Morgan Micheletti, Mitchell Shultz, Inder Paul Singh, Thomas W Samuelson

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Article in Ophthalmology and therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

J Morgan MichelettiBerkeley Eye Center, 1435 Hwy 6, Suite #202, Sugar Land, TX, 77478, USA. morgan.micheletti@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3657-5573
Mitchell ShultzShultz Chang Vision, Northridge, CA, USA.
Inder Paul SinghEye Centers of Racine and Kenosha, Kenosha, WI, USA.
Thomas W SamuelsonMinnesota Eye Consultants, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The glaucoma treatment paradigm is in evolution. The topical medications-first approach is limited by significant barriers such as high rates of nonadherence and side effects including ocular surface disease. The era of interventional glaucoma has seen the development of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), procedural pharmaceuticals, and minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS). New and emerging data support the use of these interventional treatment modalities early in the course of glaucoma rather than reserving them for advanced or treatment-recalcitrant cases. The various treatments available represent multiple mechanisms (e.g., trabecular outflow, uveoscleral outflow, aqueous suppression) and modalities (medications, laser, incisional surgery) by which intraocular pressure (IOP) is reduced. Many patients require more than one treatment to achieve adequate IOP reduction and glaucoma control. Comprehensive IOP control-reduction of both mean IOP and IOP fluctuation-can best be achieved by targeting multiple mechanisms of IOP reduction and taking advantage of the attributes of multiple treatment modalities.

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LaserMechanismMedicationMIGSModalityProcedureSustained releaseTrabecularUveoscleral

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PMID39614979
PMCPMC11724811

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