Surgical safety of prophylactic peripheral iridectomy.
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Peripheral iridectomy in closed-angle glaucoma.
PERIPHERAL iridectomy has become an accepted method of treating closedangle glaucoma. During the last 4 years we have performed this operation on more than seventy eyes and the results have convinced us that this is one of the safest and most successful of all operations for glaucoma provided that the cases are properly selected. It is the ideal operation for early cases of closed-angle glaucom...
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Of 70 eyes with therapeutic peripheral iridectomy (PI), 51% suffered a loss of two or more lines on the Snellen chart; 57% developed posterior synechiae (PS) and 57% showed lens opacities. Thirty-three per cent of eyes that underwent PI prophylactically had a vision drop of two lines or more, 39% developed PS and 42% showed varying degrees of lens opacities. Although vision drop, lens opacities...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.51.7.459