OBJECTIVE Comparison of fornix- and limbus-based conjunctival flaps with respect to cystic bleb-related complications of trabeculectomy with high-dose mitomycin C (MMC) in pediatric and young adult glaucoma. DESIGN Retrospective nonrandomized comparative interventional case series. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-seven patients. METHODS Identification of patients aged <30 years from operating theater...

Method The conjunctival flap is prepared and reflected over the cornea by the method described by Scheie (I958) and the limbal area is exposed. With the blade of a scalpel, held perpendicularly to the limbal plane, a cut 3 mm. long is made in the limbal tissue (Fig. i a, b) concentric to the limbus more than half the depth of the sclera. At either end, two cuts I *5 mm. long are made perpendicu...

AIM To establish the incidence, time course, and severity of conjunctival wound leakage following trabeculectomy, and also to establish whether early wound leakage adversely affects the ultimate outcome of the surgery. METHOD A prospective, observational case series of sequential trabeculectomies performed in a single institution over a 12 month period. Datasets on 286 operations were analyse...

Aim: To establish the incidence, time course, and severity of conjunctival wound leakage following trabeculectomy, and also to establish whether early wound leakage adversely affects the ultimate outcome of the surgery. Method: A prospective, observational case series of sequential trabeculectomies performed in a single institution over a 12 month period. Datasets on 286 operations were analyse...

Fungal keratitis is a severe and common ocular infectious disease. The present study evaluated the efficiency of full-thickness conjunctival flap covering surgery with amniotic membrane transplantation (FCCS + AMT) as a transitional surgery for severe fungal keratitis. A total of 17 patients with severe fungal keratitis without corneal perforation underwent FCCS + AMT between January 2010 and D...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of amniotic membrane transplantation in trabeculectomy. methods: the study was conducted on 25 eyes of 25 patients with advanced and medically uncontrolled glaucoma. all patients underwent trabeculectomy with a fornix based conjunctival flap, amniotic membrane was then placed under the scleral flap and fixed using 10-0 nylon suture. amniotic membrane was retrieve...