Yuen Keat Gan

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. No abstract is available for this article. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. References 1 and , “Rethinking the Long-Term Degradation of Crosslinked Gelatin Stents,” Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology (2026), https://doi.org/10.1111/ceo.70026.

1 Introduction Glaucoma ranks among the leading causes of irreversible vision loss, often necessitating surgical intervention when medications can no longer manage its progression. Efforts to find alternatives to traditional full-thickness drainage surgeries like trabeculectomy, which involve significant tissue manipulation, have resulted in the development of stent-based procedures, such as the XEN-45 implant.