Micropulse Laser Trabeculoplasty in Glaucoma: Efficacy and Safety in a Clinical Cohort
Flaviu Ionut Bodea, Cristina Ariadna Nicula, Delia Mirela Tit, Andrei-Flavius Radu, Ruxandra Cristina Marin, Gabriela S Bungau, Stephen G Schwartz · 2025
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Description
Flaviu Ionut Bodea and co-authors report real-world results for a gentle laser treatment in glaucoma in a 2025 cohort study. Glaucoma blinds by pressure inside the eye, and lowering that pressure is the only proven brake. Micropulse laser trabeculoplasty treats the eye's drainage tissue with pulsed laser light. The cohort covered eighty patients and 132 eyes treated at one Romanian hospital between 2018 and 2025.
Pressure fell from about 18.2 to 15.6 millimeters of mercury at three months, a drop the statistics confirm. Vision measures and side effects were tracked alongside. Real-world cohorts show how a therapy behaves outside trial polish, in the mixed patients clinics actually see.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Flaviu Ionut Bodea, Cristina Ariadna Nicula, Delia Mirela Tit, Andrei-Flavius Radu, Ruxandra Cristina Marin, Gabriela S Bungau, Stephen G Schwartz |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |