trabeculectomy

This type of surgery is usually done after a trabeculectomy that failed.

If you have severe pain after a trabeculectomy, call your doctor immediately.

The most common problem after a trabeculectomy is scarring of the opening.

The first of these advantages is an improved safety profile over trabeculectomy.

The most common conventional surgery performed for glaucoma is the trabeculectomy.

Trabeculectomy is the most frequently used surgery to treat glaucoma.

Trabeculectomy may be combined with surgery to remove a cataract.

Usually there is mild discomfort after a trabeculectomy.

Trabeculectomy is not the first surgery used for treating babies who have congenital glaucoma.

Trabeculectomy is less likely to be successful in:

Unlike trabeculectomy, the surgery does not create an external filtering bleb.

Three-year follow-up of the tube versus trabeculectomy study.

People who have a trabeculectomy without being admitted to the hospital usually have a checkup the following day with their eye specialist.

Late complications after a trabeculectomy may include:

Some cases can be resolved with some medication, vitrectomy procedures or trabeculectomy.

Trabeculotomy is a surgical procedure much like trabeculectomy.

The long-term effectiveness of trabeculectomy surgery in preventing loss of vision from glaucoma is less certain.

In the American study, new glaucoma patients were treated either with eyedrops or trabeculectomy in both eyes.

NPDS is demonstrated to cause significantly fewer side effects than trabeculectomy.

In contrast, white patients with advanced glaucoma who have no life-threatening health problems should begin a treatment program that starts with trabeculectomy.

Preziosi's operation for glaucoma remained in use for many years until the development of trabeculectomy.

Tube-shunt surgery is most often used for people who have had previous trabeculectomy surgery that was not successful, usually due to scarring.

Trabeculectomy is used to treat open-angle glaucoma and chronic closed-angle glaucoma.

Trabeculectomy is usually done when medicine treatment for glaucoma has failed to reduce the pressure in the eyes enough to prevent damage to a person's eyesight.

These are indicated for glaucoma patients not responding to maximal medical therapy, with previous failed guarded filtering surgery (trabeculectomy).