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SUBMITTER: Mandell KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319899 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mandell Kenneth J KJ Kudelka Matthew R MR Wirostko Barbara B
Expert review of ophthalmology 20110101 6
Affecting 60 million patients, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. Despite the availability of multiple medical and surgical treatments with effective intraocular pressure lowering, many patients still progress to become visually handicapped from glaucoma due to therapeutic failure. There is therefore a great need for novel therapies to improve the standard of care, and Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitors represent a promising new class of drugs for treatment of glaucoma. ROCK ...[more]