Konstantakopoulou, Evgenia;
Gazzard, Gus;
(2022)
Is selective laser trabeculoplasty shifting the glaucoma treatment paradigm in developing countries?
ritish Journal of Ophthalmology
10.1136/bjophthalmol-2022-321706.
(In press).
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Abstract
In 2019, the Laser in Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (LiGHT) randomised controlled trial reported that initial treatment with selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is more cost effective than initial treatment with pressure-lowering eye drops, leading to a reduced number of glaucoma surgeries and very low rates of adverse events while providing drop-free intraocular pressure (IOP) control to 78% of treated eyes after 3 years.1 2 As a result, the European Glaucoma Society,3 the American Academy of Ophthalmology4 and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence5 now recommend the use of SLT as initial treatment for open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and ocular hypertension (OHT).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Is selective laser trabeculoplasty shifting the glaucoma treatment paradigm in developing countries? |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2022-321706 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2022-321706 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Author(s) (or their employer[s]) 2022. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Glaucoma, Intraocular pressure, Treatment Lasers |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148702 |
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