Clinical Advances of Glaucoma: Current Status and Prospects
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Ophthalmology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ophthalmology; glaucoma surgery; new devices in glaucoma treatment; quality of life in glaucoma patients; cataract surgery; IOLs designs
Interests: glaucoma surgery; new devices in glaucoma treatment; childhood glaucoma; intraocular pressure; retinal nerve fiber layer; retinal ganglion cell; visual field; optical coherence tomography; angiography; retinography; filtering surgery; minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
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Interests: glaucoma; cataract surgery; eye diseases; phacoemulsification; statistics; biostatistics; clinical research; clinical ophthalmology; ophthalmology; epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Glaucoma currently encompasses a group of chronic and progressive diseases with no single and definitive treatment. The use of hypotensive eye drops entails a series of limitations, such as difficulty in patient compliance, lack of response in some patients, decreased hypotensive efficacy over time, and prolonged use leading to alterations in the ocular surface. Another treatment option is laser, but its hypotensive effect is of limited duration, and it is not free of complications. Filtering surgery is usually the most effective procedure for reducing intraocular pressure, but it is relatively frequently associated with the presence of complications such as hypotony, blebitis, endophthalmitis, transient loss of visual acuity, etc.
In recent years, surgical techniques have been sought that are effective in the long term with a lower incidence of complications and that are simple and easily reproducible. In this regard, multiple devices have recently been designed that facilitate the exit of aqueous humor in a minimally invasive manner through different routes: trabecular meshwork, suprachoroidal space, and subconjunctival space.
In addition, widely known technology, such as the excimer laser or the femtosecond laser, is being implemented in glaucoma surgery.
Dr. Rubén Sánchez-Jean
Dr. Carmen Dora Méndez-Hernández
Dr. Federico Sáenz-Francés San Baldomero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- glaucoma surgery
- new techniques
- minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
- intraocular pressure
- optometry
- IOLs designs
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