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Top-Five of the 8th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery
Muscat, Oman, February 17–20, 2016
Tanuj Dada, New Delhi, India
- The Thom J. Zimmerman Memorial Lecture
Dr George L. Spaeth gave a thought-provoking talk on ‘Glaucoma surgery from the point of view that matters – the patient’ and emphasized the prime importance of understanding emotional and psychological needs of individual patients and their personal perspective on glaucoma therapy as the guiding force for surgical decision making rather than the target IOP or efficacy of new surgical techniques.
(Dr George L. Spaeth, Philadelphia, USA) - The Clive Migdal Appreciation Lecture
Dr Andre Mermoud gave a lecture titled ‘Transgress to Progress’ introducing a new ‘Eye Watch System’ to reduce complications of Tube surgery. This is a magnetic system which is implanted between the anterior chamber and the seton tube and can regulate the aqueous flow passing through with the help of an external magnet, and thereby reduce the risk of post-operative hypotony.
(Dr Andre Mermoud, Lausanne, Switzerland) - The Doug Johnson Memorial Lecture
Michael Coote spoke on the process of changing the ‘goal posts’ for interrogating the mechanisms that underpin successful glaucoma surgery. New methods of testing and manipulating the porosity of subconjunctival tissue are the key to designing innovative predictable and more successful glaucoma surgery strategies.
(Michael Coote, Melbourne, Australia) - Bioinformatic and chronological analysis of trabeculectomy by utilizing
comprehensive functional gene association and cellular event studies: a focus
on fibrotic scar formation
Muneeb A. Faiq et al. provided a comprehensive event analysis (genetic, epigenetic and cellular) based on the understanding of the process of postsurgical scar formation in trabeculectomy. Two hundred nine genes, 1764 interactions, 24 biochemical processes and 31 cellular functions involved in fibrotic scar formation were identified. Statistical analysis revealed 19 genes that can be targeted to prevent scar formation to improve surgical outcomes.
(Muneeb A. Faiq, New Delhi, India) - Trabeculectomy with or without an AC maintainer
This RCT compared the effect of using an anterior chamber maintainer during trabeculectomy on intraocular pressure (IOP) and corneal endothelial cell density (ECD), in a follow-up period of one year. Using an AC maintainer was associated with a greater IOP reduction and less decrease in ECD, giving an additional safety while performing trabeculectomy.
(Marilita M. Moschos, Athens, Greece)
