Ocular Surface Disease and Glaucoma Treatments
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 3897
Special Issue Editor
Interests: glaucoma; ocular surface; anterior segment surgery; uveitis
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Dear Colleagues,
Glaucoma treatments include medical, surgical and laser therapies. Usually, medications represent first-line therapy even if an ocular surface disease may develop due to years of treatment, the number of eye drops, preservatives, age or previous conditions. Today, more attention is paid to the ocular surface and how quality of life could be affected by medications more than by visual field defects in the early stages of disease. Therefore, in the last few years, the literature about the study of ocular surface disease and glaucoma using new diagnostic tools has increased. Many laboratory tests have been introduced to highlight the immunological changes and inflammation in the ocular surface. Anterior segment-optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy have been largely used to detect the early signs of ocular surface alterations and the relationship between the ocular surface and failure of filtering surgery. This is still an unsolved issue. Multidose eye drops require preservatives to prevent microbial contamination. Preservatives disrupt the ocular surface and tear film generation or increase pre-existing ocular surface disease. Recently, preservative-free eye drops, both unidose and multidose formulations, and new slow-release devices have been introduced to improve ocular surface health. Besides, laser trabeculoplasty or minimally invasive glaucoma surgery are anticipated to become more widespread in surgical treatment to replace standard anterior filtering surgery.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to illustrate the new developments that are taking place in terms of ocular surface disease diagnosis and improvements in glaucoma patients.
Dr. Michele Figus
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ocular surface
- Glaucoma
- MIGS
- Inflammation
- Tear film
- Medical treatment
- Anterior segment OCT
- On vivo confocal microscopy
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