The use of silicone drainage tubing to control post-keratoplasty glaucoma

A series of 20 patients who developed severe post-keratoplasty glaucoma unresponsive to medical therapy and trabeculecetomy were treated using silicone drainage tubing and an anterior encircling gutter. The results indicate a four year probability of maintaining vision and normal intraocular pressur...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Eye (London) 1988-09, Vol.2 (5), p.583-590
Hauptverfasser:	Kirkness, Colin M, Ling, Yvonne, Rice, Noel S C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anastomosis, Surgical - methods Biological and medical sciences Corneal Transplantation Cryosurgery Drainage - methods Glaucoma - etiology Glaucoma - surgery Humans Laboratory Medicine Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Ophthalmology Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology Postoperative Complications - surgery Prospective Studies Silicones Surgery Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Surgery of the eye and orbit Surgical Oncology
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Zusammenfassung:	A series of 20 patients who developed severe post-keratoplasty glaucoma unresponsive to medical therapy and trabeculecetomy were treated using silicone drainage tubing and an anterior encircling gutter. The results indicate a four year probability of maintaining vision and normal intraocular pressure (
ISSN:	0950-222X 1476-5454
DOI:	10.1038/eye.1988.109