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Your MIGS Choice Matters

 

The first and only MIGS device to report significant safety and effectiveness outcomes from a pivotal trial at 5 years.1,2

hydrus microstent logo

 

Your MIGS Choice Matters

 

The first and only MIGS device to report significant safety and effectiveness outcomes from a pivotal trial at 5 years.1,2

 

Hydrus® Microstent: 

 

Leading the Way For Evidence-Based Outcomes

 

The Hydrus® Microstent received the highest quality of clinical data rating given among all MIGS, in the 2020 AAO Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Preferred Practice Pattern guidelines.3

A gold seal indicating that the Hydrus Microstent received the highest quality of clinical data rating in the 2020 American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Pattern guidelines.
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59% of Hydrus Microstent patients remained medication-free at 5 years4

(*n=308)

 

The second visual is a scalpel with an arrow pointing downwards, and copy says >50% reduction in secondary surgical intervention.
The second visual is a scalpel with an arrow pointing downwards, and copy says >50% reduction in secondary surgical intervention.

Greater than 50% relative
reduction in incisional SSIs
for Hydrus® Microstent
patients compared to cataract
surgery alone1

 

(2.4% in Hydrus® + CS vs. 5.3% in CS only)

The third visual is a shield with a cross, and copy says proven safety at 60 months.
The third visual is a shield with a cross, and copy says proven safety at 60 months.

Established long-term safety
at 60 months with SAE** rates
comparable to cataract
surgery alone1,2

Hydrus® Microstent provides confident and efficient microstent delivery

 

Hydrus® Microstent’s intuitive delivery system allows for a straightforward procedure with immediate visual confirmation of successful implantation.

 

Secondary Surgical Intervention (SSI) includes trabeculectomy, tube shunt, gel stent, ECP/TSCP, non-penetrating; (9/369 Hydrus® and 10/187 CS)

**SAE= Serious Adverse Event; (13/369 (3.5%) in Hydrus® eyes vs. 8/187 (4.3%) in the control eyes)

 
 

An Innovative Design and a Unique Mechanism of Action

Roughly the size of an eyelash, the Hydrus® Microstent is a revolutionary canal-based MIGS device for adult patients with mild to moderate primary open-angle glaucoma

 

The device is made of nitinol, which is highly flexible and biocompatible5

An image of the Hydrus Microstent device appears over a light-blue background. Numbers one through three appear over the image pointing to different locations on the device.
The first circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
The first circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
Rounded distal tip for a smooth passage into Schlemm’s canal
The second circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
The second circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
Open-window scaffold design provides outflow pathways for aqueous
The third circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
The third circular image of up-close sections of the Hydrus Microstent device.
Aqueous inlet facilitates flow from anterior chamber to Schlemm’s canal

An up-close image of the Hydrus Microstent implanted in an eye. Dark blue arrows indicate flow travelling through the device. Three circular images numbered one through three point to various locations on the device in the eye. The magnified image in number one indicates a 90º Span, number two indicates Open Scaffold Design, and number three indicates Bypass.

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90° Span:

 

The only MIGS implant to span approximately 90° of Schlemm’s canal, ensuring access to collector channels in the nasal region.

 

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Open Scaffold Design:

 

The first MIGS device to precisely dilate and scaffold Schlemm’s canal, gently expanding the cross sectional area without obstructing outflow access to collector channel ostia.5

 

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Bypass:

 

The Hydrus® Microstent bypasses the trabecular meshwork to restore flow of aqueous from the anterior chamber through the inlet of the microstent into Schlemm’s canal.

 
 

Leading the Way For Evidence-Based Outcomes

The HORIZON Study

 

The largest prospective, randomized, controlled MIGS pivotal trial to date with 556 patients at 38 centers in 9 countries and five years of continuous follow up with 80% retention at year five.6-9

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Clinically proven to provide long-term IOP reduction10

Clinically Proven Graphs

Through 5 years, incisional SSIs were low in the Hydrus® group1‡

A visual indicating the results of the Hydrus Microstent plus Cataract Surgery and Cataract Surgery Only studies. The results indicate a >50% relative reduction in incisional secondary surgical intervention for Hydrus Microstent patients compared to cataract surgery alone.

*5-year pivotal trial follow up included 308 patients in the Hydrus® group and 134 in the control

Secondary Surgical Intervention (SSI) include trabeculectomy, tube shunt, gel stent, ECP/TSCP, non-penetrating; (9/369 Hydrus® and 10/187 CS) 

Established long-term safety at 60-months with comparable SAE* rates reported vs cataract surgery alone1

image of table long term safety at 60 months

*SAE= Serious Adverse Event; (13/369 (3.5%) in Hydrus® eyes vs. 8/187 (4.3%) in the control eyes)

The COMPARE Study

 

The first prospective, randomised, multicentre trial comparing Hydrus® Microstent vs 2 iStent* Trabecular Micro Bypass implants

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more Hydrus® Microstent medication-free patient compared to patients with 2 iStent* implants at 12 months.13

A bar graph comparing the results of Hydrus Microstent vs two iStent Trabecular Micro Bypass implants. The results indicate ~2X more Hydrus Microstent medication-free patients compared with 2 iStent implants.
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mean medication reduction 
at 2 years with Hydrus® Microstent, compared to a 30% reduction in the 2 iStent* group12

Two bar graphs comparing the results of Hydrus Microstent vs two iStent Trabecular Micro Bypass implants. The results highlight a 52% mean medication reduction at 2 years with Hydrus Microstent, compared to a 30% reduction in the 2 iStent group.

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Instructions for Use (IFU)

 

For a full list of indications, contraindications and warnings, please visit ifu.alcon.com and refer to the relevant product’s instructions for use. 

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References

1. Ahmed IIK, et al. Long-term outcomes from the HORIZON randomized trial for Schlemm’s Canal microstent in combination cataract and glaucoma surgery. Ophthalmology. 2022;129(7):742-751.
2. NIH. Safety & effectiveness study of the Hydrus Microstent for lowering IOP in glaucoma patients undergoing cataract surgery (HORIZON). ClinTrials.gov (NCT01539239)
3. Gedde SJ, et al. Primary open-angle glaucoma preferred practice pattern. Ophthalmology 2020;128(1): 71-150.

4. Alcon Data on File, 2024.

5. Hydrus Microstent Instructions for Use. 2020.

6. US Food and Drug Administration. Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data (SSED): Glaukos iStent® Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf8/P080030B.pdf. Published June 25, 2012.

7. US Food and Drug Administration. Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data (SSED): CyPass System. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf15/P150037B.pdf. Published July 29, 2016.

8. US Food and Drug Administration. Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data (SSED): iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass System. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf17/P170043b.pdf. Published June 21, 2018.

9. US Food and Drug Administration. Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data (SSED): CyPass System. Hydrus Microstent. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf17/P170034B.pdf. Published August 10, 2018.

10. Samuelson TW, Chang DF, Marquis R, et al. A Schlemm canal microstent for intraocular pressure reduction in primary open-angle glaucoma and cataract: The HORIZON Study. Ophthalmology. 2019;126:29-37.

11. Alcon Data on File, 2024.

12. Alcon Data on File, 2018.

13. Ahmed I, et al.: A prospective randomized trial comparing Hydrus and iStent micro-invasive glaucoma surgery implants for standalone treatment of open-angle glaucoma: The COMPARE Study (Ophthalmology. 2020;127:52-61)

14. Otarola F, Virgili G, Shah A, et al. Ab interno trabecular bypass surgery with Schlemm ́s canal microstent (Hydrus) for open angle glaucoma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020;3:CD012740.

 

Please refer to the relevant product direction for use for list of indications, contraindications and warnings.