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| Year : 1993 | Volume
: 41
| Issue : 4 | Page : 181-184 |
Post-penetrating keratoplasty glaucoma
G Chandra Sekhar, Prateep Vyas, Rukmini Nagarajan, Anil K Mandal, Satish Gupta
VST Centre For Glaucoma Care, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
Correspondence Address:
G Chandra Sekhar
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Road No. 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034
India
PMID: 8005650
To study the risk factors in the development of glaucoma following penetrating keratoplasty, we retrospectively analysed 190 eyes of 185 consecutive patients who had undergone surgery during 1990. The donor button was larger by 0.2 mm and 0.5 mm in phakia and aphakia/pseudophakia patients, respectively. Over a mean follow-up period of 14.5 months, 52 of the 190 eyes (27.4%) either developed glaucoma de novo or had worsening of preexisting glaucoma. Of these 52 eyes, 38 were managed medically and 14 required surgery. From our study, aphakia (37%), pseudophakia (24%), preexisting glaucoma (81.8%), and regrafting (43.18%) were found to be the significant risk factors in the development of glaucoma following penetrating keratoplasty.
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