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Medication Usage in Cataract Combination Procedures, Standalone Procedures, and in African Americans.
“We are proud to continuously support the study of interventional glaucoma treatment, especially in highlighting critical groups of patients that may benefit from active surgical interventions. These results demonstrate that when surgeons are given the right solutions, they are able to reduce a patient’s intraocular eye pressure (IOP) and reliance on medication and maintain those reductions over an extended period of time, 24 months or 36 months,” said Paul Badawi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sight Sciences.
In a 24-month prospective study of 18 eyes with medication washout at baseline, 12 and 24 months, of standalone OMNI use, mean baseline IOP of 26.1 mmHg was reduced an average of 9.7mmHg at 12 months and 10.6 mmHg at 24 months (both p<.001), while mean medications were reduced from 1.8 to 0.9 and 0.5 (both p<.001) at months 12 and 24, respectively
