Suzann Pershing

Smoking Is Associated with Higher Intraocular Pressure Regardless of Glaucoma: A Retrospective Study of 12.5 Million Patients Using the Intelligent Research in Sight (IRIS®) Registry.

Current smokers and past smokers have higher IOP than patients who never smoked. This difference is higher in patients with an underlying glaucoma diagnosis.

Intraocular Pressure Changes after Cataract Surgery in Patients with and without Glaucoma: An Informatics-Based Approach.

Our results suggest that patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or with narrow angles or chronic angle closure were more likely to achieve sustained IOP reduction after cataract surgery.

Cataract Surgery Complexity and Surgical Complication Rates Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without Dementia.

Among US Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery, those with dementia are more likely to have "complex" surgery" lasting more than 30 minutes.

Evaluation of Website Accessibility and Content for All Glaucoma Fellowship Programs in the United States.

Likelihood of Corneal Transplantation after Tube versus Trabeculectomy: An IRIS® Registry Study.

The likelihood of corneal transplantation is over 4 times higher after tube shunts compared with trabeculectomies.

Impact of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin use on progression to glaucoma surgery in primary open angle glaucoma.

Higher baseline HbA1c, particularly in patients taking insulin may be associated with higher rates of glaucoma surgery in POAG.