Agarwal Hospital’s new hope for Glaucoma patients

Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital announced on Saturday that they have developed a new treatment for Glaucoma. 

A medical breakthrough, the Single Pass Four Throw (SFT) Pupilloplasty technique can be used for treating closed angle glaucoma and it has shown good results in patients with both early and advanced closed angle Glaucoma, a Hospital releasse stated. 

The SFT Pupilloplasty technique is ideal for treating this closed angle glaucoma due to abnormal iris configuration and closed angle. In SFT, the iris position is corrected by releasing the iris from the angles where the fluid drains. 

This new method of pulling the iris (the brown tissue) from the angle from where it has been attached to the centre creates clear angles. By this method, the iris is preventing from blocking the aqueous or fluid flow inside the eye which is necessary for maintaining pressure. This method has shown better outcomes as compared to laser treatment. 

The method will certainly provide added advantage in treating such patients with high eye pressure due to closed angles by iris tissue, the release said.

The one-of-its-kind treatment was used successfully to save the vision of 83-year-old Ms Sulochana who was brought to Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital for an eye check-up.