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YAG laser to clean the back cover and glaucoma

Laser is a modern technology that has revolutionized many medical fields, including eye surgery.

Lasers are used in treating cataracts and glaucoma, but the matter differs according to each case, and there are different types of lasers to deal with these problems.

Dr. Muhammad Hantira, an honorary assistant professor at the Ophthalmology Department, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, said

The treatment of cataract and glaucoma on the eye with laser is done in specific cases and varies according to the nature of each case. Cataract uses the femto-cataract technique, which enables us to divide the lens of the eye affected by the cataract with femto-laser.

Hantira added that the use of femto-laser “cataract” in the treatment of cataract achieves good results and facilitates the process, especially in cases of heavy white water, where the laser can get rid of it and treat it completely.

Hantira explained that with regard to glaucoma, we use a type of laser called a “yag laser” through which we can make an opening in the iris of the eye and be able to perform the simple glaucoma operation that affects the patient in its early stages.

Hantira emphasized that severe cases of glaucoma require surgical intervention, and that the “YAG laser” cannot be used to treat them, unlike cataracts, which the “cataract laser” can treat all cases.

A reader asks: My mother suffers from high eye pressure, known as glaucoma, so is the use of lasers useful in treating glaucoma?

Dr. Hantira answers the question, saying:

Glaucoma, known as “glaucoma”, is a disease of high intraocular pressure or pressure forming the eye, and the eye has a ciliary body responsible for the formation of the eye fluid, and also the intraocular channels responsible for draining the fluid from inside the eye. Any imbalance in the fluid drainage rate leads to an increase in the eye pressure, from here. The important role of the laser came in the treatment of glaucoma.

Dr. Hantereh adds to the laser in this disease many uses, starting from the types of lasers that reduce the formation of the fluid such as diode lasers, and there are other types that help to drain pressure through openings in the eye such as the yag and argon laser and sometimes the holmium laser, and all types of lasers that are used in the treatment It has the properties of forming holes in the tissues to drain the eye pressure and acts as an aid to treat glaucoma.