Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of trabeculectomy with or without mitomycin-C (MMC) in the management of glaucoma in aphakia and pseudophakia following congenital cataract surgery.

Trabeculectomy after failed glaucoma drainage device (GDD) is often thought of as a poor choice due to the possibility of violated conjunctiva leading to failure of the trabeculectomy. Thus, no large ...

The combination of a compromised endothelium and the use of mitomycin-C can cause bullous keratopathy in patients undergoing glaucoma filtering surgery, a recent publication suggests. Holger Mietz, MD ...

The gold standard of surgical management of patients with open-angle glaucoma is trabeculectomy with an adjunctive antifibrotic agent. Although bleb-forming surgeries reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers have found that trabeculectomy significantly slows the rate of perimetric decay from glaucoma, ...

The goal of glaucoma surgery should be the preservation of visual function, the avoidance of sight-threatening complications, and the preservation of the quality of life of the patient. Curiously, the ...

A new report suggests corticosteroids likely are not a panacea for ocular surface disease, a potential adverse effect of trabeculectomy. Patients who took steroid eye drops before trabeculectomy for ...

More than half of people getting a certain type of glaucoma surgery may suffer from temporary, sometimes severe vision loss afterwards, suggests a new study. A smaller proportion, about 8 in every 100 ...