A 46-year-old myopic white male developed severe hypotony maculopathy with a visual acuity of 8/200 and an IOP of 3 mm Hg 2 weeks after combined phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy with mitomycin C for juvenile glaucoma. Despite success with surgical revision of the bleb in cases of posttrabeculectomy hypotony maculopathy,1-3 we were aware that reopening the conjunctival flap still posed a r...

purpose: to compare the success rate of mitomycin-c versus bevacizumab for prevention of bleb failure following phacotrabeculectomy. method: in this study 74 eyes of 69 patients with uncontrolled iop, progressive visual field loss and cataract were randomized in two groups. in the first group, after conjunctival peritomy at the sclera flap site, sponge pats soaked in mitomycin c with concentrat...

AIM To determine outcomes of bleb excision and conjunctival advancement for leaking or hypotonous eyes after glaucoma filtering surgery. METHODS In a retrospective case series the medical records of all patients who underwent bleb excision and conjunctival advancement surgery for bleb leaks or hypotony (defined as IOP less than 6 mm Hg, associated with reduced vision) at the Jules Stein Eye I...

Please allow me to express my congratulations to the team led by Dr. Esperanza Gutiérrez for the results obtained in the recently published article titled «Repermeabilization through revision with filtration bleb needling with late failure after glaucoma surgery» (1). Although the results are obtained from a retrospective study, with the limitations this may entail, they achieve a high success ...

AIM The aim of the study is to assess the outcomes of transconjunctival mitomycin C (MMC)-augmented revision in eyes with failed trabeculectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective, noncomparative case series. One hundred and twenty-one eyes of 113 consecutive glaucoma patients with previously failed trabeculectomy who underwent transconjunctival revision with at least 12 months of ...

OBJECTIVE Secondary glaucoma is a serious complication in patients with transthyretin (TTR)-related familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). We assessed the long-term outcomes and complications of trabeculectomy with mitomycin C (MMC) for secondary glaucoma associated with FAP. METHODS Medical case records of Kumamoto University Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. Twenty-one eyes of 13 ...