The new technology offers a faster recovery, better results after surgery for glaucoma
Contact: 214-648-3404 staishy.siemutsouthwestern.edu Staishy Bostick Siem University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (USA) - When conventional therapies for glaucoma have been exhausted, ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a new surgical technique in the glare from Arsenal this disease when not to stop too much pressure inside the eye. UT Southwestern ophthalmologists are a few in the Dallas area in the recently approved Ex-PRESS mini glaucoma shunt, a metal cylinder use smaller than a grain of rice.It is surgically implanted in the eye and offers an outlet for the fluid pressure at the origin.There are several advantages by this distraction, said Dr. Karanjit Kooner, associate professor of ophthalmology. The small
size of minimal manipulation of tissues requires the method is fast and reversible, and postoperative inflammation is minimal. I have great success with this method had. The average reduction in intraocular pressure was 40 percent, and stop many patients could use their medication Kooner glaucoma. Mr. report on the technique to the turnout at the annual meeting of the American Eye Surgery Symposium in New York in mid-September implant.The derivation is Food and Drug Administration in March 2002. So far about 700 ophthalmologists from around the country trained to perform the procedure, including about 50 in Texas. conventional shunts used to treat glaucoma have larger eyes, forcing doctors to make big cuts in sight. Now the average is between 2 mm and 4 mm in length about
half the size needed to accommodate other derivations. As a result, surgery is less invasive and causes less scar tissue and make the procedure more successful.Previously, a large amount of scar tissue sometimes formed, blocking the emergency channel.Patients have a shorter recovery time with the new bypass. The operation does not require a hospital stay and less than an hour. If the patch is placed on the eye one
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