Lifelong monitoring of congenital cataract patients is essential

On a recent trip to Togo, West Africa, my colleagues and I taught local ophthalmologists to perform selective laser trabeculoplasty in a model that we hope to see replicated throughout the region.

In a keynote lecture at the 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology in Lisbon, Hendrik Scholl, MD, co-founder and director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, discussed its mission to unravel the mysteries of vision and human eye disease.

The findings have potential clinical and public health implications and highlight the greater role of metabolic health status than obesity in IOP elevation, according to the authors.

Look for fluctuating vision, test objectively and keep a few effective tools at your disposal to treat OSD.

The procedure can provide prolonged IOP lowering in primary open-angle glaucoma with an excellent safety profile.

Automated AI tool offers offline capability and hope for patients.