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Oct 2025
59m 18s

Micropulse Laser Therapy for Glaucoma

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
About this episode

Drs. Marc Toeteberg-Harms and Soshian Sarrafpour join host Dr. Andrew Pouw to discuss micropulse transscleral laser therapy for glaucoma, a less invasive procedure compared with traditional continuous-wave cyclophotocoagulation.

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