Is there surgery for Glaucoma?

Can I have Surgery for Glaucoma? Yes, there are surgeries for glaucoma! The goal of glaucoma surgery is to preserve vision. In general, glaucoma surgery does not regenerate or restore vision that has already been lost. We do glaucoma surgery to lower eye pressure. Lowering eye pressure helps to protect against further vision loss from glaucoma. Three broad categories of glaucoma surgeries 1. Enhance the natural drainage system of the eye 2. Create a new drainage system 3. Decrease production of fluid in the eye 00:20 What is glaucoma? 1:15 Treatment for Glaucoma — Lower eye pressure / intraocular pressure (IOP) 1:40 SLT to lower eye pressure 2:00 What determines eye pressure — rate of fluid production vs. rate of fluid drainage 3:05 Medications / Eye drops to lower eye pressure 3:20 Surgery to lower eye pressure 3:45 Surgery to enhance natural drainage system — minimally invasive glaucoma surgery; stents or trabecular bypass; canaloplasty; goniotomy 5:00 Create a new drainage system — shunt fluid out of the eye into the subconjunctival space. Trabeculectomy / XEN stent / Glaucoma drainage device such as Clearpath tube / Ahmed tube / Baerveldt tube 6:00 Cyclodiode procedure to decrease fluid production — transscleral or endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation. TSCPC / ECP