Setting Sights on Durable IOP-lowering Agents and MIGS: Strategies to Reduce the Glaucoma Treatment Burden

This Learning Center is a freely accessible educational platform for ophthalmology healthcare providers and others who provide care for those at risk for or affected by glaucoma. Our goal is to ensure that you – the practicing clinician – have access to the most accurate, up-to-date information for the management of patients with glaucoma.

We encourage you to share this educational resource with your colleagues and your healthcare team.

Pradeep Y. Ramulu, MD, PhD
Course Director

Courses

Advances in Sustained-Release Pharmacotherapies

Credit Available: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Missed doses correlate with worsening visual field for patients with glaucoma. Several strategies are emerging that provide continued pharmacologic dosing for a prolonged period of time. This activity will explore these new and emerging sustained-release pharmacotherapies, the most recent evidence to date, and which patients are suitable for treatment.

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Course Faculty

Leon W. Herndon, Jr., MD

Mitigating With MIGS: Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Different Devices and Technique

Credit Available: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Multiple minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) techniques are now available with several more in development. This activity will examine the latest data surrounding these emerging methods, including efficacy and safety. How to best align these techniques based on patient characteristics and available data will also be discussed.

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Course Faculty

John T. Lind, MD

Applying Evolving Strategies to Practice

Credit Available: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Several minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS) are now available for patients with glaucoma. This series of case studies will review the decision-making process for management of patients who experience elevated intraocular pressure. Patient-centered issues and how they guide treatment selection will also be discussed.

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Course Faculty

Michele C. Lim, MD