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Top-Five of the Annual Conference of the Glaucoma Society of India
September 20-22, 2013, Indore, India
Sushmita Kaushik
- In an epidemiological study from South India, of those identified with POAG, 93.0% had not been previously diagnosed. A large proportion of persons who require eye care are currently not utilizing existing eye care services. Strategies to improve the uptake of services are required to reduce the burden of blindness due to glaucoma in India. (R. Ramakrishnan, Tirunelveli, India)
- In a study, angle-closure glaucoma constituted 45.9% of all primary adult glaucomas seen in India. In India asymptomatic chronic angle-closure glaucoma mimicking POAG is common. Provocative testing may play a supportive role in asymptomatic occludable angles. (Ramanjit Sihota, New Delhi, India)
- A good stereoscopic disc picture may prove to be the best mode of disc evaluation since there are many qualitative features that are missed on imaging. Training ophthalmologists to look at the optic disc critically and pick up subtle signs of glaucoma may be more useful than trying to decipher automated image analyses tools with their inherent limitations. (S.S. Pandav, Subiaco, Australia)
- In a study from Central India, the ratio of open-angle glaucoma to angle-closure glaucoma was 7.7:1 (1.93% (95%CI: 1.64, 2.22) to 0.24% (95%CI: 0.14, 0.34)). Using the ISGEO criteria, glaucoma prevalence was 2.8% (95%CI: 2.3, 3.3) with a less clear association with older age. (Vinay Nangia, Nagpur, India)
- The Aurolab Aqueous Drainage Implant (AADI) is a good, low cost, effective glaucoma drainage device which is a prototype of the Baerveldt design. Preliminary results are good and issues of hypotony have been minimized by tightly ligating the tube after implantation. It is easy to implant and intraoperative complications were few. The results at six months in terms of IOP control and safety were comparable to the Baerveldt implant. The low cost is an added advantage and has made it accessible to people who could not have afforded a drainage device otherwise. (George V. Puthuran, Madurai Tamil Nadu, India)
