Trabeculectomy. A follow-up study.

Abstract

Trabeculectomy, introduced by Cairns (1 968) and modified by Watson (i 969), has become an accepted part of the armamentarium of the glaucoma surgeon. It has been shown to succeed by means of external filtration into a well-covered diffuse and posterior drainage bleb (Ridgway, Rubinstein, and Smith, I972; Thyer and Wilson, 1972; D'Ermo and Bonomi, 1973) and it has proved to be free of many of the troublesome early complications of previously devised filtration operations (Ridgway and others, 1972). It has also proved reasonably successful in African and Asian eyes (Chatterjee and Ansari, 1972). However, longer term follow-up has not been adequately reported and it is the purpose of this paper to describe such a study.