Keith Barton

About Keith Barton

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Professor of Ophthalmology, UCL, Co-Chair of Ophthalmology Futures Forums, London, UK

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Inadequate training, experience and surgical volume in more conventional glaucoma surgical techniques is driving surgeons towards safer but lower efficacy glaucoma surgical options. This may be good for patients with early disease, but this trend offers little hope for the future of effective treatment for the less commercially attractive and more serious challenges presented by advanced glaucoma patients.