Internal trans-pars plana filtering procedure in humans

✍ Scribed by Gholam A. Peyman; Howard C. Charles; Abdulrahman Alghadyan

• Book ID: 104634038
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 665 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-5701
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00130617

✦ Synopsis

Two patients (two eyes) with end-stage, medically uncontrollable glaucoma underwent transvitreal pars plana filtering procedures with a contact Nd:YAG laser with a sapphire probe. Intraocular pressure was being maintained without medication four months after surgery, with persistence of a diffuse filtering bleb.