Trial reportInternational ophthalmology2009
A randomized prospective study comparing trabeculectomy with and without the use of a new removable suture.
Trial report in International ophthalmology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Trabeculectomy with versus without releasable sutures for glaucoma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC ophthalmology · 2014Pooled it
- Early post-operative anterior segment parameters modifications induced by PreserFlo MicroShunt in primary open-angle glaucoma.International ophthalmology · 2023Observational
- [Treatment success of canaloplasty and trabeculectomy by the same surgeon with the same level of experience in the long-term course].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2020Article
- Trabeculectomy combined with deep sclerectomy and scleral flap suture tension adjustment under an anterior chamber maintainer: a new modification of trabeculectomy.International ophthalmology · 2010Article
- Trabeculectomy: is releasable suture trabeculectomy a cause of better bleb?Romanian journal of ophthalmologyArticle
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionThe aim of this prospective study is to verify, in terms of both early postoperative complications and intraocular pressure (IOP) outcomes, the performance of a scleral flap removable suture. MATERIALS AND
methodsSixty-six patients that underwent trabeculectomy were randomly divided into two groups: in the first group (group A, 33 eyes) a standard fornix-based trabeculectomy was performed by using a conjunctival chain suture. In the second group (group B, 33 eyes) the same technique was performed with the additional employment of a new removable suture to the scleral flap. The patients were followed-up for 12 months.
resultsAfter 1 year the mean IOP was 16.58 mmHg (+/-3.73 mmHg) in group A, and 16.12 mmHg (+/-4.21 mmHg) in group B; statistical analysis did not show significant differences between the two groups (P = 0.19). Early postoperative hypotony and shallowing of the anterior chamber were significantly more frequent after standard trabeculectomy than after trabeculectomy using the removable suture (P < 0.02).
conclusionsThe employment of a fornix-based conjunctival chain suture for the flap allows the use of the removable scleral flap suture, which has proved very effective in preventing insufficient flap resistance with aqueous overdrainage and hypotony, and which is also easy to apply and to remove. Compared with standard trabeculectomy, this device has proved to have similar IOP-lowering efficacy, together with a lower rate of early postoperative complications.
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