BACKGROUND To determine the agreement between intraocular pressure and the 'Wuerzburg bleb classification score', as well as between single items of the score and intraocular pressure. Interobserver variability was analyzed. METHODS 57 post-trabeculectomy eyes were included. Colour photographs were used to score the filtering bleb in accordance to the Wuerzburg bleb classification score by tw...

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...

PURPOSE The authors conducted a morphology analysis of filtering blebs with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) in patients shortly after trabeculectomy to find further criteria for success or failure of a filtering bleb. METHODS Thirty-seven patients (43 eyes) who had recently (<2 years) undergone trabeculectomy were measured 1 to 4 times with AS-OCT. In contrast to ultras...

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...

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...

PURPOSE To evaluate position and function of antiglaucomatous Ahmed and Molteno shunts using magnetic resonance imaging with head and surface coils. METHODS Eight patients (5 males) with shunt implants were included, 4 with Ahmed (FP-7) and 4 with Molteno (s1, single plated). All patients were operated at least 6 months before imaging. In 3 cases (2 with Molteno and 1 with Ahmed shunt), the i...

BACKGROUND The giant filtering bleb encroaching onto the corneal surface is a rare occurrence in our and other's clinical experience (Kapoor and Syed, Int. Ophthalmol 31(5):403-404, 2011), even in patients having had a trabeculectomy with mitomycin C, and how it developed is debated. In this paper, we report a patient who developed a huge overhanging filtering bleb after trabeculectomy, and pre...

OBJECTIVE To determine the indications and outcome of conjunctival advancement surgery for late-onset filtering bleb leaks. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective medical record review of a consecutive case series of all patients who underwent conjunctival advancement surgery for persistent late-onset glaucoma filtering bleb leaks at a tertiary referral center between December 1, 1985, and April ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROPUND: Filtering bleb formation after surgical repair of penetrating globe injury is a rare occurrence. CASE A 45-year-old male who had undergone surgical repair of a corneoscleral laceration 16 months earlier presented to emergency room after blunt trauma to the left eye. His best-corrected visual acuities were 20/20 in the right eye and 20/25 in the left. An anterior segmen...