Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Michael A. Kass, MD

Specialty Areas
Glaucoma
Ophthalmology

Areas of Clinical Interest
Surgical and laser treatment for glaucoma, diagnostic and therapeutic problems in glaucoma.

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, (Best Doctors, Inc), 2002-2003, 2007-2009

Listed in America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, 2002-2005

Publications

Gordon MO, Beiser JA, Brandt JD, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ, Johnson CA, Keltner JL, Miller JP, Parrish RK, Wilson MR, Kass MA, for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Baseline factors that predict the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120:714-720

Kass MA, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ, Johnson CA, Keltner JL, Miller JP,
Parrish RK, Wilson MR, Gordon MO, for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. A randomized trial determines that topical ocular hypotensive medication delays or prevents the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120:701-713

Johnson CA, Keltner JL, Cello KE, Edwards M, Kass, MA, Gordon MO, Budenz DL, Gaasterland DE, Werner E, the Ocular Hypertension Study Group. Baseline visual field characteristics in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Ophthalmology 2002; 109:432-437

Feuer WJ, Parrish RK II, Schiffman JC, Anderson DR, Budenz DL, Wells M-C, Hess DJ, Kass MA, Gordon MO, The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: reproducibility of cup/disk ratio measurements over time at an optic disc reading center. Am J Ophthalmol 2002; 133:19-28

Brandt JD, Beiser MS, Kass MA, Gordon MO, and the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Group. Central corneal thickness in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS). Ophthalmology 2001; 108:1779-1788

Tezel G, Siegmund KD, Trinkaus K, Wax MB, Kass MA, Kolker AE. Clinical factors associated with progression of glaucomatous optic disc damage in treated patients. Arch Ophthalmol 2001; 119:813-818

Tezel G, Kolker AE, Kass MA, Wax MB: Late removal of releasable sutures after trabeculectomy or combined trabeculectomy with cataract extraction supplemented with antifibrotics, Glaucoma, 1998; 7:75-81

Tezel G, Kolker AE, Kass MA and Wax MB. Comparative results of combined procedures for glaucoma and cataract: II. Limbus-based versus fornix-based conjunctival flaps. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers, 1997; 28:551-557

Tezel G, Kolker AE, Kass MA and Wax MB. Comparative results of combined procedures for glaucoma and cataract: I. Extracapsular cataract extraction versus phacoemulsification and foldable versus rigid intraocular lenses. Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers, 1997; 28:539-550

Burcfield JC, Kass MA and Wax MB. Primary valve malfunction of the Krupin eye valve with disk. Journal of Glaucoma, 1997; 6:152-156

Tezel G, Kass MA, Kolker AE, Becker B and Wax MB. Plasma and aqueous humor endothelin levels in primary open-angle glaucoma. Journal of Glaucoma, 1997; 6:83-89

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Michael A. Kass, MD