EyeWorld Weekly, January 8, 2021

➤ Commercial launch of Alcon’s Vivity IOL ➤ Topline results from Phase 2 trial for treatment of contact lens discomfort ➤ Company registers new artificial intelligence visual field exam device with FDA ➤ Positive Phase 3 results for faricimab for DME ➤ Research begins to create a MIGS patient-reported outcomes instrument ➤ ASCRS events

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Hurdles facing MIGS

Depending on what you define as a microinvasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS), you might think it first became available several decades ago with endocyclophotocoagulation (ECP), but many define the MIGS era beginning with the iStent (Glaukos), the first ab interno trabecular microbypass device approved by the FDA in 2012.

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