Laser Trabeculoplasty and Decay Effects in Glaucoma Patients
| Autor: | Alan J Jordan, Austin I Fink |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Intraocular pressure genetic structures medicine.drug_class Glaucoma 03 medical and health sciences Postoperative Complications 0302 clinical medicine Laser therapy Trabecular Meshwork Ophthalmology medicine Humans Pressure decrease Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor 030212 general & internal medicine Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Intraocular Pressure Aged business.industry Laser treatment General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Laser trabeculoplasty eye diseases 030227 psychiatry Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Laser Therapy Trabecular meshwork business Glaucoma Open-Angle Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 77:97-101 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1095 0141-0768 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/014107688407700204 |
| Popis: | Forty patients (47 eyes) with open-angle glaucoma who had been treated by laser trabeculoplasty to help reduce intraocular pressure were reviewed. The majority of patients had been followed for at least one year. Eighty-nine percent responded satisfactorily, with an average pressure decrease of 5 mmHg. There was no evidence of decay (pressure reversal) after one year. Seventy-six percent of patients who had been on carbonic anhydrase inhibitor medication were able to discontinue this therapy after laser treatment. Blacks, aphakic and diabetic patients responded satisfactorily, but hypertensive patients and those with narrow-angle glaucoma less so. Re-lasering was successful in only one of 6 patients. |
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