ASCRS 2012: David Richardson | Canaloplasty – A Focus on the Patient Canaloplasty (pronounced Kah-NAL-oh-plas-tee) is a new glaucoma treatment that gives many people with this potentially blinding condition the hope of saving the vision they have. Canaloplasty...
Lifestyle Impact of Glaucoma Canaloplasty (pronounced Kah-NAL-oh-plas-tee) is a new glaucoma treatment that gives many people with this potentially blinding condition the hope of saving the vision they have. Canaloplasty can reduce pressure in the eye (IOP) by nearly...
Why Choose Canaloplasty? So why choose canaloplasty over other more traditional glaucoma surgeries such as trabeculectomy or tubes? Well, there are number of reasons but the main one is safety.Safety Canaloplasty simply is a safer surgery and there are multiple...
What Does Minimally Invasive Mean? So canaloplasty is often described as a “minimally invasive surgery”. What does that mean, “minimally invasive”? Well, in order to understand that we really need to compare it to the traditional surgeries of...
Canaloplasty The Keys to Optimizing Patients’ Outcomes from Dr David Richardson Canaloplasty (pronounced Kah-NAL-oh-plas-tee) is a new glaucoma treatment that gives many people with this potentially blinding condition the hope of saving the vision they have....
Understanding Glaucoma Being diagnosed with glaucoma can bring feelings of panic to both patients and their loved ones. Glaucoma is called the silent “thief of sight” and the second leading cause of blindness around the world. Rarely do symptoms appear until damage to...
Contemporary medicine has alleviated humankind from the scourge of disease, both by preventing or finding cures for various ills like glaucoma. The technological breakthroughs in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) have been quite dramatic. POAG is a condition wherein...
With a patient’s sight on the line, glaucoma is a race against time. For every increase in intraocular pressure (IOP), a person with glaucoma slowly inches her way towards blindness. A glaucoma specialist therefore must address this process by keeping her patient’s...
Glaucoma is a Lifestyle Disease 2011 from Dr David Richardson SLIDE 1 | Good evening, and thank you for allowing me to share your evening with you. My name is David Richardson, and I’m in private practice north of here in the San Gabriel Valley. Tonight I...
Citation: Dahan E, Drusedau M. Nonpenetrating filtration surgery for glaucoma: control by surgery only. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. 2000;26(5):695-701. ABSTRACT Purpose: To report on intraocular pressure (IOP) control by nonpenetrating filtration...
