iSTAR Medical to Present New 3-Year STAR-GLOBAL Data at World Glaucoma Congress

iSTAR Medical announced that it will be hosting a symposium where it will present 3-year interim data from the STAR-GLOBAL trial and will also be running a dry lab at its booth at the 10th World Glaucoma Congress (WGC) taking place in Rome, Italy from June 28 to July 1, 2023.

The symposium, "From Evidence-Based Data to Clinical Practice: Safety and Efficacy of Supraciliary MIGS," will take place on June 29 from 18:00-19:00 CEST in Room C and will be chaired by Steve R. Sarkisian, Jr., MD (Oklahoma Eye Surgeons, Oklahoma, US); with Dr. Karsten Klabe (Breyer, Kaymak & Klabe Augenchirurgie, Düsseldorf, Germany), and Faisal Ahmed (Head of Specialty for Imperial College NHS Trust Ophthalmology Department, London, UK) as accompanying speakers. The symposium will also feature the presentation of new 3-year interim data from the STAR-GLOBAL trial, which will be presented by Inder Paul Singh, MD, glaucoma specialist and President of The Eye Centers of Racine & Kenosha, Wisconsin, US.
 
In addition to the symposium at WGC, clinical data for MINIject, the only commercially available supraciliary MIGS device, will be shared in the following presentations, posters and a poster walk:
 
Presentations

• A Multi-centre Study of a Supraciliary Glaucoma Drainage Device in Patients with Open Angle Glaucoma: 1-year Follow-Up Results
  Date: 30 June 2023
  Time: 16:45-17:45 CEST
  Presenter: Prof. Dr Antonio Fea (Clinica Oculistica, Turin, Italy)
   
• Performance of a Supraciliary Drainage Device in Glaucoma Patients with Various Stages of Disease Severity 
  Date: 30 June 2023
  Time: 16:45-17:45 CEST
  Presenter: Prof. Sheng Lim (St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK) 

Poster Walk

• Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) Imaging Following Supraciliary MINIject® Implantation In Open-angle Glaucoma
  Date: 30 June 2023
  Time: 16:45-17:45 CEST
  Presenter: Dr Julien Torbey (Swiss Visio Network, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Posters

• Outcomes of Supraciliary Drainage Device Implantation in Patients with Consistently Low IOP Presenter: Faisal Ahmed (Head of Specialty for Imperial College NHS Trust Ophthalmology Department, London, UK)
   
• Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Changes during the Post Operative Course After Insertion of a Suprachoroidal MINIject® device
  Presenter: Ms. Neeru Amrita Vallabh (St Paul’s Eye Unit, Liverpool, UK)

• Real World Data on the Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Supraciliary Microsponge Implant at 6 Months
  Presenter: Mr. Chrys Dimitriou (The Colchester Eye Centre of Excellence, Colchester, UK) 
   

Delegates are also invited to attend an Expert MINIject Dry Lab at the iSTAR Medical booth (#D74), where surgeons can get hands-on experience with MINIject. Register for the dry lab here: https://www.istar-medical.com/dry-lab-registration/