Glaucoma is the most common cause
of irreversible blindness worldwide. Treatment of glaucoma begins with medical
management but often requires surgical intervention. Since the late 1960s, the most common surgical treatment for glaucoma has been trabeculectomy. AGIS
investigators and others have established that race plays a significant role in
an individual’s response to trabeculectomy. Specifically, African American
patients have been shown to have advanced glaucoma at time of diagnosis and
respond less favorably than Caucasian patients to trabeculectomy. Our group
wishes to investigate the role of ethnicity in specific surgical treatments for
glaucoma.
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