Ivantis touts 2-year Hydrus, Glaukos iStent head-to-head study results

Ivantis today released two-year results from a study comparing its Hydrus Microstent to Glaukos‘ (NYSE:GKOS) iStent trabecular micro-bypass stents, touting reductions in medication use and no reoperations for patients in the Hydrus arm. The Irvine, Calif.-based company said that it is presenting results from the Compare trial today at the American Glaucoma Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco. “We are extremely pleased with these two year results. These results illustrate the clinical advantages of the Hydrus and its unique, proprietary Tri-Modal mechanism of action relative to focal trabecular bypass.  Clearly, scaffolding the canal has unique benefit.  Of the over 100 peer reviewed publications in the MIGS space, there are only a small handful of prospective, multicenter randomized trials, and Ivantis has conducted nearly half of those, which is a significant achievement for a company that is the most recent to commercialize in the MIGS category.  We are proud to sponsor clinical trials of this caliber, enabling the Compare investigators to advance our understanding of the Hydrus Microstent and the MIGS field overall, and we look forward to the publication of these important two year results. We are grateful to the investigators for their support and contributions,” prez & CEO Dave Van Meter said in a press release. In the study, Ivantis compared the Hydrus microstent against two large-diameter iStent devices in treating open-angle glau...
Source: Mass Device - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Clinical Trials Optical/Ophthalmic Glaukos Ivantis Source Type: news