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...
NPGS is believed to be the most promising of all new glaucoma treatment surgery because its IOP lowering effect appears to be on par with traditional filtering surgeries while having the added benefit of fewer risks (Canaloplasty vs Trabeculectomy)....
Glaucoma is the “silent thief of sight” that literally robs you blind. It is an eye disease that usually goes undetected for years because of the absence of any symptoms. Glaucoma is irreversible and progressive once damage to the nerves of the eye has...
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...
If you have had either of the laser surgeries for open angle glaucoma (Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty or Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty), you may still be a candidate for Canaloplasty. It depends, however, on how much scarring there is from the laser surgery. Although...
Because Canaloplasty has only been FDA approved since 2008, we only have three-year results. There is no reason, however, to believe that the surgery will “stop working.” In a study that looked at the long-term (7 year) results of combined cataract surgery and...
Citation: Koch J, Heiligenhaus A, Heinz C. Kanaloplastie und transiente Vorderkammerblutung: ein prognostischer Faktor?. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde. 2010;228(05):465-467. ABSTRACT Objective: An attempt has been made to evaluate transient anterior...
