Welcome to the Canadian Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting unofficial blog of topics of interest to glaucoma specialists like myself. This conference is being held in Quebec City from June 26-29, 2010 and therefore you will see many changes to this section of the blog as I update my entries each day. I would like to encourage readers to add their comments to these postings as they appear.
June 26-29, 2010
Highlights of presentations of particular interest to glaucoma specialists
27May2011 Note: I am continuing to edit these articles and ‘publishing’ new entries as I complete each one. WIth the 74th Annual COS Meeting June 9-12, 2011 from Vancouver, I will be sure to finish editing last year’s articles and get ready for the new conference blog.
This talk culminates in recommending that we consider cataract surgery as first line surgical intervention for patients with angle closure glaucoma. There is an ongoing study, EAGLE, looking at just that.
26Jun2010 1100hrs presented at the COS Annual Meeting in Quebec City by Mr Paul Foster from Moorfields Eye Hospital. Mr Foster begins by reviewing the same 2010 and 2020 prevalence data and the current classification system and makes interesting points about how angle closure glaucoma can be more damaging than open angle glaucoma.
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