UAE, Feb. 21 -- Aster Hospital Al Qusais, recognized in Newsweek's "World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025" List among 350 hospitals globally and ranked No. 14 on Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals in the UAE list, has successfully performed its first glaucoma microshunt surgery on 46-year-old Indian woman, who was suffering from advanced refractive neovascular glaucoma secondary to retinal vein occlusion. This surgery has not only brought her eye pressure back to normal, reducing it from a dangerously high level of 50mmHG to a stable 12mmHG, but also effectively prevented further loss of vision and relieved her chronic pain.
The patient, a financial professional residing in Sharjah, had been battling diabetes for four years and was receiving tr...