Microporation may address aging in eye
LAS VEGAS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, discusses microporation therapeutics and its potential role in presbyopia treatment.
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Is Presbyopia Finally Taking Center Stage?
Presbyopia is the eye condition that will impact 100% of patients at some point. It has long been said that a solution for presbyopia is the “holy grail” of eye care. While there is not yet a cure for presbyopia, there are more tools than ever before to help patients have functional near and intermediate …
read moreVIDEO: New laser offers further improvement to laser scleral microporation
BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, and George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, discuss the latest advances in laser scleral microporation.Hipsley said that the GenII VisioLite laser for laser scleral microporation (LSM) is on the pathway to commercialization and may be available by the end of the year.
read moreDr. Robert Ang in CRST
What other future treatments have promise? Laser scleral microporation is under investigation as a laser treatment for patients with emmetropic presbyopia. Four quadrants of the sclera are treated with an Er:YAG laser to uncrosslink the sclera and rejuvenate the accommodative mechanism (see video demonstration below). Treatment does not appear to affect the visual axis or …
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