High intensity focused ultrasound for glaucoma : 1-year results from a prospective pragmatic study

BACKGROUND: Ciclo plasty using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology acts through the selective coagulation of the ciliary body. Our aim was to evaluate the safety and efficacy profiles of 8-s probe HIFU cyclocoagulation using the EyeOP1 device.

METHODS: Prospective pragmatic trial.

INCLUSION CRITERIA: adult glaucoma patients with uncontrolled IOP despite optimised medical therapy, and/or intolerant to medical therapy required to achieve target IOP.

PRIMARY OUTCOME: surgical success defined as IOP reduction from baseline >20% with final IOP ≤21 mmHg, without adding any IOP-lowering drugs, and without loss of light perception; or decreased use of IOP-lowering drugs with stable/decreased IOP, without loss of light perception.

SECONDARY OUTCOMES: mean IOP, intra and postoperative complications, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and number of IOP-lowering drugs at each visit. Outcome data were collected preoperatively and at postoperative day 1, and months 1, 3, 6 and 12.

RESULTS: Forty-nine eyes of forty-nine patients (28 male) with a mean age of 70 ± 14 years were enroled. Pre-operative IOP was 26.9 ± 7.4 mmHg under 2.8 ± 0.9 topical medications, decreasing to 17.8 ± 6.4 mmHg under 2.3 ± 1 drugs at 12 months (p < 0.01). One-year surgical success was achieved in 71.4% of patients (IOP-reduction criteria: 59.2%; decreased use of IOP-lowering drugs: 38.8%). Eight patients were ultimately submitted to other glaucoma surgical interventions. Five patients experienced serious adverse events (loss of light perception n = 5; hypotony n = 1).

CONCLUSIONS: This innovative non-invasive technology seems to be effective in decreasing IOP and/or the number of administered drops in patients with refractory glaucoma. It seems a valuable tool to delay or preclude the need for filtering procedures in the majority of the patients.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

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Eye (London, England) - 35(2021), 2 vom: 21. Feb., Seite 484-489

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Marques, Raquel E [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira, Nuno P [VerfasserIn]
Sousa, David C [VerfasserIn]
Barata, André Diogo [VerfasserIn]
Sens, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Marques-Neves, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Abegão Pinto, Luis [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 18.06.2021

Date Revised 02.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41433-020-0878-0

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NLM309022134