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Combining Cataract Surgery, Baerveldt-tube Implant Sometimes Useful for Glaucoma Cataract surgery and implantation of a Baerveldt tube (BT) for glaucoma should be done separately in most cases, but may be combined in some, research from Switzerland suggests.
Reuters Health Information, January 11, 2018
Visual Field Testing Feasible in Children With Glaucoma Static perimetry is feasible for visual field testing in children with glaucoma as young as age 5 years, and kinetic perimetry provides complementary results in older children, according to findings from the Optimal Perimetric Testing in Children (OPTIC) study.
Reuters Health Information, January 5, 2018

Drinking Hot Tea Linked to Lowered Glaucoma Risk
Reuters Health Information, January 2, 2018
Alert Aerie's Glaucoma Treatment Gets Early FDA Approval
FDA Approvals, December 19, 2017
Older Americans Taking Too Many Unneeded Drugs
Kaiser Health News, December 13, 2017
Artificial Intelligence Eyed as Diabetic Retinopathy Screen
Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2017

Glaucoma Perspective

A 63-Year-Old Woman With Decreased Vision After experiencing 1 month of decreased vision in the superior visual field of the right eye, this patient comes to you for a diagnosis. Can you provide it?
Medscape Ophthalmology, April 3, 2018
Self-tonometry: Good Potential but Not Yet Practical Self-measurement of IOP in patients with glaucoma has intriguing possibilities. But is it realistic?
Medscape Optometry, March 23, 2018

Trabeculectomy After Failed Glaucoma Drainage Device Surgery
Medscape Ophthalmology, February 13, 2018
A 67-Year-Old Woman With Diplopia After Sinus Surgery
Medscape Ophthalmology, January 18, 2018
Shingles and Shingles Vaccine: An Update
Wills Eye Hospital, January 5, 2018
Incidental Fundus Finding in a Child With Cataract
Medscape Ophthalmology, December 18, 2017

Journals

Review of the Xen Gel Stent and InnFocus MicroShunt
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, March 27, 2018
Identification and Management of Lupus Nephritis
Journal for Nurse Practitioners, March 12, 2018
Complications of Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, February 27, 2018
CAM Use Among US Adults With Headache or Migraine
Headache, January 25, 2018
The Increasing Use of Cannabis Among Older Americans
The Gerontologist, January 16, 2018

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