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Glaucoma-filtering bleb infections.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW To present a review of the current literature regarding the management of glaucoma-filtering bleb infections. RECENT FINDINGS With the increased use of intraoperative antifibrotic (eg, mitomycin and fluorouracil) as an adjunct to standard trabeculectomy, an increased incidence is seen of late-onset filtering bleb-related infections. These infections range from infections loc...
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CASE REPORT A 35-year-old man with degenerative myopia suffered blunt ocular trauma due to being hit in the face by a ball. The injury caused four cyclodialysis clefts in his left eye which resulted in hypotony and chorioretinal folds. DISCUSSION The persisting hypotony was unsuccessfully treated with topical therapy and with laser photocoagulation. Therefore, a surgical treatment with direct...
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BACKGROUND Pathogenesis of giant papillary conjunctivitis is still elusive and many hypotheses are being proposed to explain the irritative symptoms associated with it. The research data available to date shows that mechanical, immunological and allergic components are involved in this to various extents. We report a rare cause of giant papillary conjunctivitis which was induced by a large filt...
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AIM To determine whether thermography can be used to evaluate bleb function. METHODS The surface temperatures of filtering blebs from 39 eyes of 33 post-trabeculectomy patients were measured using thermography. We introduced a new parameter: the temperature decrease in the filtering bleb (TDB) where TDB = (mean temperature of the temporal and nasal bulbar conjunctiva)-(temperature of the filt...
متن کاملLate-onset bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery.
OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of focal, late-onset, conjunctival bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Tertiary care outpatient referral center. PATIENTS Consecutive patients who underwent glaucoma filtering surgery prior to June 1996 presenting for evaluation from September 2,1996, through November 15,1996. Five hundred ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1992.71