The treatment of glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness in the world, has the hallmark of a clinical field that's somewhat early in its development. There is no clinical consensus regarding preferred therapies, and potential treatments are few and very different from one another. Current glaucoma therapies range from drugs offering maximum safety and minimal efficacy to surgical procedures offering great efficacy but also great risks.
Ten years or so ago, start-up device companies began to see if they might not be able to bring the paradigm of interventional cardiology to glaucoma by introducing less invasive...
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