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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1985; 8(4):145-150

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1985.8.4.145

Original Article

A Clinical Evaluation of Trabeculectomy

Ahn Chung Sook
Corresponding author: Ahn Chung Sook. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1985. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

The auther had conducted trabeculectomy ab externo on the 20 eyes in various types of glaucoma. The results have been successful for the 15 eyes(75% of the cases), but the result of 5 eyes were unsuccessful after the operation. One of the 5 failed cases, is considered due to the failure of control in ocular pressure which was the complicated glaucoma caused by trauma. The remaining 4 cases failed were in the group of hypotension. It is considered highly successful in various types of glaucoma(open angle glaucoma, closed angle glaucoma, secondary glaucoma, aphakic glaucoma and congenital glaucoma). It is concluded that trabeculectomy is a safe operation for glaucoma without any complication. This is very advantageous operation which can apply modified methods in surgical technique.