MIGS: Go with the flow? (C-100439)
28 October 2020
Autumn 2020
Kim Thomas weighs up the risks and rewards of minimally invasive surgical techniques.
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Clinical practice
In the past 10 years there has been a growth in the use of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) to treat the condition.
Professor Gus Gazzard, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, defines a MIGS procedure as “one with quick recovery, short operating time and lower risk”. Such a procedure, however, also “lowers the pressure less than traditional forms of operation like a trabeculectomy, so may have a lower chance of success in more advanced cases”.
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