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6703982

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
The safety and success rates of trabeculectomy using fornix-based or limbus-based conjunctival flaps were investigated in a randomized, prospective study. Patients with phakic eyes and uncontrolled primary open-angle glaucoma had a trabeculectomy with either a standard limbus-based conjunctival flap (18 eyes) or a fornix-based conjunctival flap (19 eyes). Filtration surgery was equally successful (intraocular pressure, less than or equal to 21 mm Hg) in both groups independent of the type of conjunctival flap: 17 (94%) of 18 eyes with a limbus-based flap (three eyes with additional medical therapy) and 17 (89%) of 19 eyes with a fornix-based flap (three eyes with additional medical therapy). Four eyes in the fornix-based group showed positive Seidel tests in the early postoperative period. Aqueous leakage was from the suture sites at the lateral margins of the flap and resolved spontaneously without surgical intervention. The fornix-based conjunctival flap was easier to perform, provided better surgical exposure, and was easier to close than the limbus-based flap.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-9950
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
361-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Limbus- v fornix-based conjunctival flap in trabeculectomy. A long-term randomized study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't