The different types of surgeries showed a huge variation over the analyzed time period.
The total number of glaucoma procedures including laser trabeculoplasty and iridotomy increased from 27,811 in 2006 to 48,794 in 2018, which resembles an increase of about 75%.
Laser trabeculoplasty increased from 667 in 2006 up to its peak in 2014 of 3677 and then declined to a number of 2736 in 2018 and accounted for up to 8.24% of all performed glaucoma procedures at its peak in 2012.
Iridotomies and iridectomies increased over the whole examined period from 1415/1688 to 3120/4187, which resembles an increase of about 120%/248% and accounts for almost 15% of all performed procedures in 2018.
MIGS could only be tracked from 2012 on but then increased from only 56 up to 5589 in 2018 and then accounted for more than 11% of all procedures in our data. The annual growth rate for these procedures was especially high in the first years and settled at around 16–35% for the last years (growth rate