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• NEW GLAUCOMA DEVICES
  The ESCRS Research Committee look at ongoing research on new glaucoma technologies 28/11/2011 - Recently there has been an increasing demand for safer surgical glaucoma procedures with low postoperative complication profiles.
  
• INNOVATION TIME
  Inaugural Practice Development weekend may set benchmark for future meetings 28/11/2011 - Delegates from Estonia, France, Iceland, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Jordan, Switzerland, Estonia, US, the UK and Ireland attended the inaugural ESCRS Practice Development Weekend at the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin Ireland.
  
• HYDROPHOBIC ACRYLIC IOL
  Novel material and design aim to bring optimised optical and anatomic performance 28/11/2011 - Cataract surgeons report favourable early experiences with a new, single-piece IOL constructed of a novel hydrophobic acrylic material (enVista mX60, Bausch+Lomb).
  
• MEDICAL RETINA
  Some experts in the field look at the safety of treatments 28/11/2011 - Over the past decade retinal medicine has entered a new era in which neovascular agerelated macular degeneration (AmD) – a previously untreatable chronic and progressive condition – cannot only be stabilised but can even be reversed.
  
• CANALOPLASTY FAILURE
  Microhyphema a good prognostic indicator in uneventful canaloplasty 28/11/2011 - The absence of microhyphema on the first postoperative day seems to be a negative prognostic indicator in uneventful canaloplasty procedures in patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), according to a study presented at the XXIX Congress of the ESCRS.
  
• 3-D TOMOGRAPHY
  Technique goes beyond the surface and improves detection of corneal pathology 28/11/2011 - Three-dimensional (3-D) tomography offers multiple advantages over 2-D topography for corneal analysis, and yet uptake of the superior diagnostic technology has been surprisingly slow, said Michael W Belin MD, in a keynote address at the 2nd EuCornea Congress.