Ophthalmology and Glaucoma Practice in the COVID-19 Era
The World Glaucoma Association will continue to support glaucoma professionals as much as possible by helping them to deliver optimal care to their patients in these exceptional circumstances due to COVID-19. Keep an eye on our social media channels for useful resources. And with so many of us staying home, stay on top of your practice by brushing up on your glaucoma knowledge with the WGA online resources.
Stay healthy and take care.
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Moving forward, it is becoming clearer that #glaucoma subjects would benefit from a clinical test to assess the robustness of their ONHs
✏️ read comment by Michael Girard in IGR 20-4
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How is eye pressure measured? What is tonometry and how is it done?
Learn more about tonometry by visiting the WGA Patient Website:
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This resource is brought to you by WGA with aims to provide unbiased information about glaucoma, using simple language in a user-friendly format, specifically for the general public, patients and their relatives.
Differing patient characteristics may have directed the surgeon toward insertion of the tube into the AC or PP, and this is a potential source of selection bias
✏️ read comment by Huda Sheheitli & Steven Gedde in IGR 20-4
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The WGA Education Committee carefully highlights presentations from WGC-2019 for your benefit.
This month Gustavo De Moraes introduces the session: ANZGS Symposium - The Gillies Lecture, and A Showcase of Glaucoma Research from Australian and New Zealand Universities.
Leading clinicians and scientists from Australian and New Zealand Universities discuss their most recent work in this symposium, with a focus on blindness prevention, neuro-protection, and risk assessment.
Watch it here: ow.ly/bzOl50Bsh09
GRS-based genetic risk estimates may aid in early disease detection, thereby allowing for timely initiation of preventive treatment and management strategies
✏️ read comment by Tin Aung & Monisha Nongpiur in IGR 20-4
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Your WGA#One account offers you all you need to learn, connect, and grow as a glaucoma specialist. Log in now to benefit from a diversity of free online resources and tools.
Log in here: ow.ly/NwKs50BsgOl
#ThrowbackThursday to the WGC-2019 Photo Exhibition: Have a look at the winning submission by Zhu Li Yap: Close recessions of the third kind.
This photo highlights the 3 clock hours of iridodialysis with associated angle recession observed after blunt injury. There are also disrupted ciliary processes seen, indicative of substantial impact. ow.ly/ifAy50Bsgr4
The LiGHT trial supports the use of a second SLT when an initial SLT is not enough to reach the target IOP or when the IOP further goes up
✏️ read comment by Florent Aptel in IGR 20-4
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The Film Festival aims to put storytelling power in the hands of glaucoma experts and seeks to showcase the role of individuals and communities as champions for glaucoma prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The festival offers a versatile way to learn and spark the conversation about glaucoma in creative ways. It features films directly or indirectly related to glaucoma, that explore and highlight the disease locally, nationally and globally. Our goal is to screen films that demonstrate, educate, inspire and encourage a change, to eliminate blindness and visual disability due to glaucoma around the world.
Get inspired by the WGC-2019 Film Festival winner, submitted by Talvir Sidhu, India, titled “Bleb Rescue Operations”: ow.ly/o7l650B2ir6
Examining features of imaging, other than thickness, e.g., texture or voxel intensity, may provide additional value for #glaucoma detection and monitoring
✏️ read comment by Andrew Tatham in IGR 20-4
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