Managing Elderly Patients With Advanced, Progressive Disease
Recapping a talk from the 2024 AAO Annual Meeting, Jody Piltz-Seymour, MD, describes a case in which she performed surgery on an active 95-year-old patient with advanced, progressive glaucoma.
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin Use, and the Need for Glaucoma Surgery
On Clinical Minute, Sophia Wang, MD, joins host Neda Shamie, MD, to discuss a retrospective observational study that investigated the outcomes of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma who did and did not have type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Survey Says: Next Steps for Slowly Progressive Disease
On this episode of “Survey Says,” a special edition of GT: The Podcast, I. Paul Singh, MD, is joined by guests Monica Ertel, MD, and Mark Gallardo, MD, to review a case from Dr. Singh’s practice. The guests share their perspectives on a patient with slowly progressive disease and a history of failed trabeculectomy, and they offer their thoughts on IOP goals and potential treatments. Later, the panelists find out how their colleagues would approach the case based on the results of a social media poll of GT’s audience.
Meeting Updates
Glaucoma Research Foundation Glaucoma360 | February 6–8; San Francisco
AGS Annual Meeting | February 26–March 2; Washington, DC
YoungMD Connect Live | March 28–30; Austin, Texas
ASCRS Annual Meeting | April 25–28; Los Angeles
ARVO Annual Meeting | May 4–8; Salt Lake City
11th World Glaucoma Congress | June 25–28; Honolulu
43rd Congress of the ESCRS | September 12–16; Copenhagen, Denmark
AAO Annual Meeting | October 17–20; Orlando, Florida
Interventional Glaucoma Consortium 2025 | November 7–9; Salt Lake City
IGC Fellows Program | November 7–9; Salt Lake City
