Scleral patch as a definitive treatment for hypotonic maculopathy after trabeculectomy
| Autor: | Neilzo Nunes Oliveira, João Antonio Prata Junior, Isadora Oliveira Jeha, Leonardo Bittencourt Silveira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Intraocular pressure Visual acuity genetic structures business.industry Fistula medicine.medical_treatment medicine.disease eye diseases Surgery Conservative treatment Ophthalmology Female patient medicine Maculopathy Trabeculectomy sense organs medicine.symptom business Ocular Hypotension |
| Zdroj: | Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia. 75 |
| ISSN: | 0034-7280 |
| DOI: | 10.5935/0034-7280.20160032 |
| Popis: | A female patient with juvenile glaucoma without clinical control underwent a trabeculectomy with mitomycin C, and developed eye hypotension which did not respond to conservative treatment, with subsequent hypotonic maculopathy. The patient was treated using a scleral patch provided by a donor above the fistula, which improved intraocular pressure and visual acuity. The use of the scleral patch above the fistula seems an adequate therapy to treat ocular hypotension due to the over-filtering trabeculectomy bubble. The surgeon should consider this technique when planning surgical solutions for such cases. |
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