Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation

Impact of Combined XEN Gel Stent Implantation on Corneal Endothelial Cell Density 2 Year-Result. Published in Journal Of Glaucoma December 2019.

EyeWatch Rescue of Refractory Hypotony After Baerveldt Drainage Device Implantation: Description of a New Technique.Published in Journal of Glaucoma 2019

Efficacy of Needling Revision After XEN Gel Stent Implantation: A Prospective Study. Published in Journal of Glaucoma 2020.

Register Now for the 5th Montchoisi International Glaucoma Symposium!
Unique talks will be delivered by internationally renowned guests like: Prof. Robert N. Weinreb, Prof. Malik Y. Kahook, Prof. Tin Aung, and Dr. Ziad Khoueir.

An event not to be missed!

Registration: [email protected].

We want to thank all our guests and speakers for making the 7th Glaucoma On The Lake a memorable event!
This project keeps growing every year, in fact we continue to break records for participation everytime, all thanks to YOU!
We hope it has been a pleasant evening full of tasteful dishes, interesting presentations and fun quizzes!

We really hope to see you again, so don't forget to sign up for next year!

The Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundatin is delighted to welcome Mr Hari Jayaram from the Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, as a keynote speaker for the 6th edition of 'Glaucoma on the Lake' in Lausanne!

The Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation is happy to announce the release of the latest issue of the World Glaucoma Association Consensus Series: "Glaucoma Surgery"!

For details & orders, make sure you visit the publisher's website: https://www.kuglerpublications.com/index.php?p=342&page=publication

This November, join us in Montchoisi for a unique talk from a very special guest, Dr Naama Hammel from the Google Health Research and Innovation Team, who will tell us about the future of Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology!
Registration: info[at]swissglaucomaresearch.ch

Thousand thanks to all our guests and speakers for making the 4th Montchoisi International Glaucoma Symposium such a huge success!
We truly hope you enjoyed our stunning venue at the Olympic Museum, and our unique panel of world-renowned experts, and we really hope to see many of you again next year on the 28.05.2020.
Save the date!

The Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation has recently won a clinical photography competition organised by the World Glaucoma Association in Melbourne, with a fundus picture of ocular decompression retinopathy following deep sclerectomy.
The original picture can be found in former fellow, Dr Lauriane Salinas' case report (doi: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000000870). Congratulations to her!

Prof. Kaweh Mansouri is in Glasgow attending the annual congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
If you are interested, make sure you attend the 'Glaucoma Day' - tomorrow the 23rd at the SEC, Glasgow.

Prof. Kaweh Mansouri, Dr Kevin Gillmann and the team from the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation attended the 11th Consensus Meeting in preparation of the latest biennial WGA Consensus guide on glaucoma surgery.

Congratulations to Dr Alice Didomenico for her 'Rapid Fire' presentation of the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation's 2 year results of XEN Gel Stents, at the World Glaucoma Congress in Melbourne!

You can still register for the 4th Montchoisi International Glaucoma Symposium that will take place on the 6th of June, at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne!
To register, simply email us at: info [at] swissglaucomaresearch.ch
Registration is free but mandatory, and includes access to the pre-plenary Lunch Symposium sponsored by Santen.

Prof. Kaweh Mansouri and the whole team of the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation were in Melbourne last month to present the results of their latest research projects!

A big 'Thank You' to our guest speaker, Prof. Miriam Kolko from Copenhagen, and to all our guests who contributed to making another edition of our 'Glaucoma on the Lake' evenings a huge success!
We truly hope you all had a wonderful evening like we did, and we will see many of you at the 4th Montchoisi International Glaucoma Symposium on the 6th of June!

Interested in Glaucoma? Unsure about OCT-A?
Feel free to read the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation's latest review on OCT-A applied to clinical glaucoma in Glaucoma Physician.
> https://bt.e-ditionsbyfry.com/publication/frame.php?i=546433&p=&pn=&ver=html5

Ophthalmology Management Glaucoma Physician December 2018

The Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation team is delighted to have contributed to Dr Ricardo Augusto Paletta Guedes's latest book that has just launched last month: "Practical Guidance for Micro-invasive Glaucoma Surgery".
Congratulations to the editors for putting together such a comprehensive textbook!

The Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation would like to thank everyone for making last night's Glaucoma Imaging Evening a success!
Congratulations to Mrs Angulo, Dr Tran, Dr Ceschi, Dr Azam and Dr Papasavvas, who have all won their copy of the new Glaucoma Imaging Atlas by Heidelberg Engineering.
Finally, we express our deepest thanks to Prof. Christian Mardin and Mr. Ali Tafreshi, our special guests from Germany, for their wonderful talks. It was a delight having you with us and we look forward to seeing you again soon at our Annual Symposium!

Once again a big thank you to all our guests at Hôtel d'Angleterre yesterday, for the latest session of our Glaucoma on the Lake series in Lausanne!

We would especially like to thank Assoc. Prof. Cédric Schweitzer from Bordeaux for his visit and captivating talk on pseudoexfoliative glaucoma.

We hope you all enjoyed the evening at least as much as we did!

On the 18th of November 2018, Assoc. Prof. Kaweh Mansouri and Prof. André Mermoud were with Dr Piet Noé in Kigali to inaugurate the Rwanda Charity Eye Hospital. A 100-bed charity hospital built and funded by several ophthalmology Foundations to provide eye care and specialist training in a country that counts only 18 ophthalmologists for a population of 12 million.

The latest publication from the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation is making the cover of the Journal of Glaucoma's August 2018 issue!

This rare and beautiful picture is a microscopic view of the tip of an explanted XEN tube, showing clear obstruction with dense fibrous tissue.

Discover the full article: Chronic Intraocular Inflammation as a Risk Factor for XEN Gel Stent Occlusion: A Case of Microscopic Examination of a Fibrin-obstructed XEN Stent, by Kevin Gillmann, Kaweh Mansouri, Giorgio Enrico Bravetti, André Mermoud.

You can read the full abstract on our page or on the journal's website : https://journals.lww.com/glaucomajournal/Abstract/2018/08000/Chronic_Intraocular_Inflammation_as_a_Risk_Factor.13.aspx

Chronic Intraocular Inflammation as a Risk Factor for XEN
Gel Stent Occlusion: A Case of Microscopic Examination of
a Fibrin-obstructed XEN Stent, published in the Journal of Glaucoma, 2018.

We would like to thank all our guests, including Maestro Wilson Hermanto and the exceptional musicians from the Cameristi della Scala, for making the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation's first Gala evening such an unforgettable night.

On the 14th of June 2018, the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation held its 3rd Annual Symposium at Beau-Rivage Palace, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
This new edition of the Congress welcomed seven guest speakers form internationally acclaimed institutions, and well over 160 attendees.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank all our guests, speakers and sponsors : we truly hope that you enjoyed this event as much as we did, and we are already looking forward to welcoming you at the 4th edition of the Foundation's Symposium in Summer 2019!

All our thanks to Professor Ricardo Augusto Paletta Guedes and Doctor Piet Noë for their respective conferences at Clinique de Montchoisi, in Lausanne.
We were delighted and honoured to welcome you for these outstanding talks !

'Thank you' to everyone who attended this session of the Glaucoma on the Lake in Lausanne, last Wednesday.

We hope you enjoyed the event at least as much as we enjoyed having you here with us at Hôtel d'Angleterre!