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News Flashes IGR 8-1

Glaucoma is not associated with increased mortality


The new Glaucoma Staging System has advantages over earlier systems. It is, however, too complicated for extensive clinical use without computer. It is far from ideal for individual patient monitoring


The Glaucoma Staging System may not accurately represent stage of disease of glaucoma or degree of glaucoma induced functional loss


Patients with elevated IOP treated with glaucoma medications have a two-fold increased risk to develop nuclear cataract


Cost of glaucoma management vary from USD 600 to 1900 per year,depending on stage


The 'normotensive' contralateral eye in patients with exfoliation syndrome showed glaucoma damage in an unexpectedly high percentage


Glaucoma patients have altered antibody profile


Calcineurin inhibition may be an interesting approach to protect RGC death in glaucoma


Memantine protected glaucoma monkey lateral genucleate cells against cell size reduction


A novel ab interno procedure reports 77% of IOP's under 18 mmHg


Cyclic mechanical stress increased both total and biologically active TGF -1 protein


In patients with pseudoexfoliation IOP fluctuation correlated with retinal nerve fiber layer thickness


There is a possible parallelism between perfusion patterns in patients with NTG and Alzheimer's disease


Valsalva maneuver may cause anterior chamber narrowing and IOP rise


Variable inductions for many MMP types may contribute to the variable IOP-reduction observed among different patients receiving latanopros


A meta-analysis showed that the use of MMC with filtering surgery produced significantly lower IOP and lower risk of failure


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