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28. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)

Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)

06.03. - 08.03.2014, Bochum

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Can we cure Glaucoma?

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  • Robert C. Stegman - Pretoria, South Africa

Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie. 28. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII). Bochum, 06.-08.03.2014. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2014. Doc14dgii071

doi: 10.3205/14dgii071, urn:nbn:de:0183-14dgii0714

Published: March 4, 2014

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More than 20 years’ experience in the surgery of Glaucoma involving all forms of the disease have revealed that early detection and early surgical intervention to re-establish normal physiological outflow of ageous can result in halting progress or complete turnaround of Optic nerve damage. With follow-ups of as long as 22 years captured on high quality video this concept of the curing of glaucoma has come of age.