How open-angle glaucoma is treated

Open angle glaucoma can be controlled by medication, laser treatment and surgery. 1. Medication: Usually used for early stage open angle glaucoma, eye drops can be prescribed to lower intraocular pressure, commonly used ones include tafluprost eye drops, brimonidine tartrate eye drops, brinzolamide eye drops, timolol maleate eye drops and so on. 2. Laser treatment: suitable for early open-angle glaucoma patients, can do selective laser trabeculoplasty treatment. 3. Surgical treatment: suitable for middle and late glaucoma patients, in addition to other glaucoma patients, if the effect is not good after medication and laser treatment, surgical treatment can also be done, commonly used surgical modalities are composite trabeculectomy, implantation of glaucoma drainage valves and so on. Patients with open-angle glaucoma need to go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital as soon as possible for examination and targeted treatment according to the condition after diagnosis by the doctor.