MENLO PARK, Calif., March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sight Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGHT), an eyecare technology company focused on creating innovative solutions intended to transform care and improve patients’ lives, today announced that the first patient has been treated in the novel TRIDENT clinical trial, designed to demonstrate the OMNI® Surgical System with higher volume as a safe and effective standalone treatment option, compared to implantation of iStent inject®, in lowering IOP in adult patients with open-angle glaucoma. With glaucoma, elevated IOP is the leading risk factor for the development and progression of the disease.
The TRIDENT study is a prospective, randomized, multicenter, comparative trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness outcomes, including IOP reduction, for pseudophakic eyes (eyes which had previously undergone cataract surgery) in three…