Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma

Dr. Samples co-authored and edited The Glaucoma Book with Paul Schacknow, was guest editor of Ophthalmic Genetics: Diagnosis and Therapy, and co-authored the complete edition of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Basic Science and Clinical Curriculum in Glaucoma,In addition to his clinical practices in Denver, CO and Portland, OR, Samples leads four glaucoma meetings a year: (1) Glaucoma at Snowmass in March (Co-director), (2) Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmology Society, 105 years old), a meeting alternating between California and Hawaii (Executive Secretary, (3) Glauocma Mini-Fellowship (9-year old meeting sponsored by University of California/San Francisco and co-directed with Dr Shan Lin, and (4) since 2002, he has run the Trabecular Meshwork Society, immediately prior to the American Society for Cell Biology. Dr Ahmed, whose clinical practice is in Toronto, Canada, is co-chair of the largest Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma meeting, a multi-sponsored one-day event.

Part I. Considerations in Device Development.- 1. Schlemm’s Canal And Collector Channels As Therapeutic Targets.- 2. Intraoperative Assessment of the Conventional Collector Outflow System As Therapeutic Target.- 3. Suprachoroidal Space As A Therapeutic Target.- 4. Ciliary Body as a Therapeutic Target.- 5. Clinical Trials for IOP lowering Devices to Support a FDA Premarket Submission.- 6. Considerations in Patenting New Surgical Devices for Glaucoma: The Changing Patent Law Landscape.- Part II. Laser Technologies.- 7. New Laser Technologies.- 8. Excimer Laser Trabeculostomy (ELT) – an effective MIGS procedure for Open Angle Glaucoma.- 9. Laser Therapies: Cyclodestructive Procedures.- 10. CO2 Laser-Assisted Deep Sclerectomy.- Part III. Ultrasound Technologies.- 11. Ultrasonic Circular Cyclo-Coagulation.- 12. TUG (Therapeutic Ultrasound for Glaucoma).- Part IV. Internal Outflow Enhancement.- 13. The iStent® MIGS Family: iStent®, iStent Inject®, and iStent Supra®.- 14. Canaloplasty.- 15. The Hydrus Micro-Stent.- 16. Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery: Trabeculectomy ab interno.- Part V. External Outflow Enhancement.- 17. XEN Glaucoma Implant. The solution designed by Aquesys®.- 18. Glaucoma Surgery With the Ex-Press Glaucoma Shunt.- 19. Molteno Developments in Traditional Outflow Implants.- 20. Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Model M4.- Part VI. Suprachoroidal Outflow Devices.- 21. The CyPass Suprachoroidal Micro-Stent.- 22. STARfloTM: a suprachoroidal drainage implant made from STAR® Biomaterial.- 23. SOLX Suprachoroidal Shunt.- Part VII. Cataract Surgery.- 24. Cataract surgery: The ‘new’ glaucoma procedure?.- 25. Lens Extraction For Angle Closure Glaucoma.- Part VIII. Future Developments.- 26. Adopting New Surgical Methods: How I do it & How I Choose: Going with the Flow.- 27. Biomarkers to predict glaucoma surgical success.