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New anti-glaucoma therapy: fixed combination drugs

HE Xiang-ge   

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, the Da-ping Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China
  • Received:2015-10-02 Online:2015-11-25 Published:2015-12-03
  • Contact: HE Xiang-ge,Email: hexiangge2011@126.com E-mail:hexiangge2011@126.com

Abstract:

 In recent years, new type antiglaucoma medication, fixed combination drugs,  were commercially available in our country. The drugs were combination by two or three anti-glaucoma medication individual components with different mechanism of lowering Intraocular pressure. The efficacy of fixed combination drugs was increased than their individual components. There were the same adverse effects as or less their individual components. These simplify the anti-glaucoma therapeutic regimen, reducing exposure to preservative, and improved the tolerability and compliance of patients.

Key words: glaucoma/drug therapy, fixed combination drugs