AU - Jacob, Pushpa AU - Thomas, Ravi AU - Mahajan, Anuradha AU - Mathai, Annie AU - Gieser, Stephen AU - Raju, Renu TI - Releasable suture technique for trabeculectomy PT - ORIG DP - 1993 Apr 1 TA - Indian Journal of Ophthalmology PG - 81-82 VI - 41 IP - 2 4099- https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=1993;volume=41;issue=2;spage=81;epage=82;aulast=Jacob;type=0 4100- https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=1993;volume=41;issue=2;spage=81;epage=82;aulast=Jacob AB - 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.