According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, trabeculectomy offers a viable treatment option for various forms of glaucoma, including closed-angle and open-angle, as well as primary and secondary types.

Trabeculectomy: The surgeon will make a small cut in the white part of your eye to take out some of the mesh of tissue inside. This helps the extra fluid drain out.

The incidence of trabeculectomy is falling due to more effective medical therapies, resulting in fewer trabeculectomy operations carried out by Ophthalmology trainees. This study audits all ...

A trabeculectomy is a medical procedure that can relieve pressure in the eyes, which is associated with glaucoma. It involves making a small hole in the eye that allows excess fluid to drain ...

"In trabeculectomy, a small hole is created in the eye, and a flap of eye tissue is used to form a valve-like system. This valve allows fluid to escape when the eye pressure rises, thereby ...

Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of trabeculectomy with or without mitomycin-C (MMC) in the management of glaucoma in aphakia and pseudophakia following congenital cataract surgery ...

Trabeculectomy is typically reserved for patients with severe glaucoma who don't get better with standard medication or laser therapy, Francis said.

Comparison of Surgical Outcomes Between Canaloplasty and Trabeculectomy at 12 Months' Follow-up Ayyala RS, Chaudhry AL, Okogbaa CB, Zurakowski D Ophthalmology. 2011;118:2427-2433 ...

Along this line, minimally invasive micro sclerostomy (MIMS, Sanoculis) is a recent innovative technique that combines the mechanism of conventional trabeculectomy and simple needling.

Trabeculectomy was performed using a limbus-based approach in 10 (25.6%) pseudophakic and 12 (30.8%) phakic eyes (P =0.775). The concentration of MMC used was 0.25 to 0.3 mg/mL in all patients.

Trabeculectomy can reduce IOP significantly in advanced glaucoma with minimal risk, and it should be considered as a first-line treatment in those cases, a presenter at Hawaiian Eye 2007 said ...