Losartan Attenuates Scar Formation in Filtering Bleb After Trabeculectomy
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[Filtering bleb after surgical cyclodialysis].
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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OBJECTIVES To analyze filtering blebs after trabeculectomy by means of in vivo confocal microscopy and to correlate the images with clinical bleb appearance and function. METHOD In vivo confocal microscopy using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph/Rostock Cornea Module (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) was performed in 53 filtering blebs in 45 patients 6 days to 30 years postoperative...
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عنوان ژورنال: Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1552-5783
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.16-21163