Continuation of Risks of Trabeculectomy (Part 1 of 2) Late postoperative (after the eye has healed from surgery) Loss of vision Many patients who need to have glaucoma surgery have already lost a significant amount of vision. They would be expected to lose additional...
If trabeculectomy works so well, why don’t glaucoma surgeons recommend it to all of their patients with glaucoma? After all, cataract surgeons offer cataract surgery to nearly every one of their patients with a significant cataract. What’s so different about...
What Is Trabeculectomy Surgery? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” If this well known opening to Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities were to be rewritten as “It was the best of glaucoma surgeries, it was the...
