Glaucoma
Diagnosis, monitoring and medical and surgical treatment.
Glaucoma Surgery
Emergency procedures like paracentesis and wound burps, MIGS procedures in the operating room, and fistulizing surgeries such as XEN and glaucoma tubes.
Key Glaucoma Lasers
The big pitfalls to avoid with glaucoma lasers, and why compressive gonioscopy is a must.
Death Dive: The Dual Ripcord Baerveldt
A Baerveldt glaucoma tube placed with two ripcord sutures.
Glaucoma Tube Touching Endothelium & Scar Growing into Ahmed Valve
Long scleral tunnels can avoid the need for a patch graft.
GSL When the View Is Bad (Goniosynechialysis)
A narrow angle undetected until angle closure, with significant edema. How to handle angle synechiae and avoid a "perfect storm" after a PI.
Danger in the Dark (Extended Version)
When visibility drops during surgery, a handheld slit beam helps: AC shallowing from acute misdirection, tube checks and more.
Tube Hyphema From Hell
A monocular end-stage glaucoma patient with a severe hyphema and a high pressure spike.
Perfect Storm
A pressure spike best avoided, with pearls on goniosynechialysis and the value of gonioscopy.