Ep 33 Talking About Glaucoma - 31Dec2020 DeMORAES Gus Humphrey 24-2C The Origin Story (AAC)

Ep 33 Talking About Glaucoma - 31Dec2020 DeMORAES Gus Humphrey 24-2C The Origin Story (AAC)

In this episode, I talk with Gus DeMoraes, a frequent guest of the pod. Gus is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Columbia University where he serves as Medical Director of Clinical Trials. When we originally sat down to record this way back in March 2019, he had just presented some of the work he had done in collaboration with Don Hood. This has now appeared on Humphrey perimeters as the 24-2C testing strategy and is becoming a new the standard of care. It is based on reports in recent years that glaucoma damage often occurs in the macular area but missed because the standard 24-2 testing strategy only tests in 6 degree increments. These early central glaucomatous defects are often hidden between the test points.

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Ep 32 Talking About Glaucoma - 9Sep2020 KIM Won Combined MIGS Procedures (AAC)

Ep 32 Talking About Glaucoma - 9Sep2020 KIM Won Combined MIGS Procedures (AAC)

In this episode, I talk with Won Kim, a glaucoma colleague based at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, about why he has been combining multiple minimally invasive glaucoma procedures in patients who have failed traditional glaucoma surgery.

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Ep 31 Talking About Glaucoma - 6Jun2019 LEWIS Rick Rho Kinase Inhibitors: a new class of drugs (AAC)

Ep 31 Talking About Glaucoma - 6Jun2019 LEWIS Rick Rho Kinase Inhibitors: a new class of drugs (AAC)

The goal of the late Dave Epstein was to find a drug that treats the cause of glaucoma by improving trabecular meshwork outflow. After many years of research, Aerie Pharmaceuticals was formed and refined a Rho Kinase inhibitor called Netarsudil. In April 2018 this came to market as Rhopressa and March 2019, combined with latanoprost, as Roclatan. Today I’m talking with Rick Lewis, a glaucoma colleague based in Sacramento and Chief Medical Officer for Aerie Pharmaceuticals…and we’re Talking About Glaucoma.

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Ep 30 Talking About Glaucoma - 5Nov2018 JOHNSTONE Murray Pulsatile Flow (AAC)

Ep 30 Talking About Glaucoma - 5Nov2018 JOHNSTONE Murray Pulsatile Flow (AAC)

In this episode, I talk with Murray Johnstone from Seattle about pulsatile flow through the Trabecular Meshwork and collector channels. We discuss the imaging improvements over the years that have made this possible including the latest phase-based OCT scans that result in nanometre resolution instead of the micrometre resolution of spectral domain scans that most of us are using  in clinical practice.

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