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EW SHOW DAILY 66 ASCRS Symposia Saturday, May 6, 2017 that Uses No Implants, and Lowers Intraocular Pressure Over 8 Years, Both Alone and With Phaco," to name a few. Also from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. will be an instructional course on "Coex- isting Cataract and Glaucoma: Tips for the Uneasy Relationship." In- structors for this course are Ahmad Khalil, MD, Alan Crandall, MD, Amar Agarwal, FRCS, and Boris Malyugin, MD, PhD. From 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Reay Brown, MD, will present the Charles D. Kelman Innovator's Lecture titled "Overcoming Resistance: Making Glaucoma a Surgical Disease." Later in the day from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., an instructional course for those getting started with MIGS—pearls for using trabecular microbypass stents—will be instruct- ed by Carlos Buznego, MD. Tuesday A course reviewing new technologies and devices presented in Russian will be hosted from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. U.S. ophthalmologists will talk about technologies and devices with slides translated into Russian. Elena Vialova, MD, will serve as the instructor. EW by Liz Hillman EyeWorld Staff Writer will include intraoperative gonios- copy instruction and a look at four MIGS devices. From 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. there will be a paper session on cyclopho- tocoagulation, CO2 laser, and glau- coma surgery. Papers include "Vit- rectomy and Pars Plana Endoscopic Cyclophotocoagulation in Refrac- tory Glaucoma," "Safety of Novel Glaucoma Surgery and the Imme- diate Postoperative Period in Stand Alone and Combined Phacoemulsifi- cation & CO2 Laser-Assisted Sclerec- tomy Surgery—CLASS," "Two-Year Treatment Outcomes in the Shunt Tube Exposure Prevention Study (STEPS)," and "Fractal Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma." Monday "MIGS, Trabeculectomy, and Goni- otomy," a paper session from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., will address "Outcome of Trabeculectomy With MMC and Both Releasable/Controllable Suture in Management of Advanced Glaucoma," "Outcomes of Using a Single-Handed Trabeculotome for Surgical Goniotomy for Treatment of Glaucoma," and "Excimer Laser Trabeculostomy, a MIGS Procedure Sunday Sunday's glaucoma offerings start with a paper session from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. focused on MIGS. Four- year outcomes of MIGS with two trabecular micro-bypass stents and postoperative prostaglandin for open angle glaucoma patients on two medications preoperatively will be discussed, as well as outcomes through 42 months following MIGS with two trabecular bypass stents in patients not controlled on one med- ication. Other research will include "Nine-Month Duration of Single Use Low-Dose Extended Release Travo- prost and Matched IOP-Lowering Effects of Pre-Study Prostaglandin Analogs and In-Study Timolol," "Evaluation of Anterior Segment Pa- rameters by Pentacam Imaging After Prophylactic Laser Peripheral Iridot- omy," and "The Missed Glaucoma, a Case Series on Advanced Late Diag- nosed Juvenile Glaucoma." From 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., Nir Shoham-Hazon, MD, and Shakeel Shareef, MD, will lead the course "Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery for the Comprehensive Oph- thalmologist: Exploring Various Mi- crostents and Devices." The course will include a didactic portion as well as a skills transfer portion that T oday, a paper session from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. will cover some of the latest research involving MIGS and canaloplasty. Papers include "Efficacy of a New Ab Interno Gel Stent Alone Versus Gel Stent Com- bined with Phacoemulsification for Glaucoma Treatment," "Long-Term, Single-Site Outcomes of Trabecular Bypass Stent and Cataract Surgery in Eyes with Previous Medical and/ or Surgical Glaucoma Therapy," "Twelve-Month Outcomes of Ab-In- terno Canaloplasty for Mild-to-Mod- erate Controlled and Uncontrolled Glaucoma," "Early Postoperative Period Observations of Supraciliary Microstent Implantation for IOP Control in Combined POAG-Cata- ract Surgery," and "Ab Externo Sibs Micro-Shunt with MMC Efficacy and Safety: Consecutive Prospective Interventional Case Series." An instructional course from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. will provide information about the indications, approaches, and techniques for using microstents and microinvasive devices. Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed, MD, is the instructor of this course, with Douglas Rhee, MD, Richard Lewis, MD, Thomas Samuelson, MD, Arsham Sheybani, MD, and Steven Vold, MD, serving on the faculty. Must-see glaucoma sessions www.ASCRS.org/MacraHotline

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