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| Year : 1993 | Volume
: 41
| Issue : 2 | Page : 81-82 |
Releasable suture technique for trabeculectomy
Pushpa Jacob, Ravi Thomas, Anuradha Mahajan, Annie Mathai, Stephen C Gieser, Renu Raju
Schell Eye Hospital, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Ravi Thomas
Schell Eye Hospital, Vellore 632 001, Tamil Nadu
India
PMID: 8262608
We studied the effect of the releasable suture technique on immediate postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP). Nine eyes of nine patients with glaucoma had trabeculectomy with a releasable suture. In the six eyes that did not receive antimitotics, the suture was released by the fifth postoperative day; in the others suture release was delayed up to the fourteenth day. Of the nine patients, one had an acceptable postoperative IOP and did not need suture release; in another the suture broke and could not be released. In the remaining seven patients, the difference between the pre-release and post-release IOP was statistically significant (p < 0.001). The complications of this technique include failed suture release, subconjunctival hematoma and a distinctive "windshield wiper" keratopathy.
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