trabeculectomy

Glaucoma Drainage Devices

For over a century it has been known that fluid build-up in the eye can result in loss of vision. It should come as no surprise, then, that the idea of shunting aqueous fluid from the anterior chamber into the space between the sclera and conjunctiva (subconjunctival space) has been around almost that long.

When Should Trabeculectomy Be Considered?

Enough is now known about Trabeculectomy surgery to recognize that it tends to work better (and carry less risk) for certain groups of people.

Trabeculectomy Glaucoma Surgery After Canaloplasty

Surgeons who do not perform (or only infrequently perform) Canaloplasty may have the impression that trabeculectomy cannot be performed after Canaloplasty. Why would this be so?

Risks of Trabeculectomy (Part 2 of 2)

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...

Risks of Trabeculectomy (Part 1 of 2)

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...

Why Trabeculectomy is the Most Common Glaucoma Surgery

Why Trabeculectomy For Glaucoma? Ask most glaucoma surgeons what their “go to” glaucoma surgery is and the vast majority will answer, “trabeculectomy.” There are a number of very powerful reasons for this: It’s what glaucoma surgeons were taught in residency. Because...

Trabeculectomy Surgery For Glaucoma

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...

An Ophthalmologist’s Perspective – Glaucoma is a Lifestyle Disease

ASCRS 2012: David Richardson | Canaloplasty – A Focus on the Patient Canaloplasty (pronounced Kah-NAL-oh-plas-tee) is a new glaucoma treatment that gives many people with this potentially blinding condition the hope of saving the vision they have. Canaloplasty...

What Are the Risks of Canaloplasty?

What Are The Risks Of Canaloplasty? Although canaloplasty is a safer surgery when compared with more traditional glaucoma surgeries such as trabeculectomy and tubes, it is surgery, and so there are risks needed to be associated with it. It is important to note that...

Is Canaloplasty Really Safer Than Trabeculectomy?

Is Canaloplasty Really Safer Than Trabeculectomy? If you’re considering surgery to treat your glaucoma, then no doubt you’re concern about the risks of surgery. In traditional surgeries such as trabeculectomy and tubes, do come with significant risks. One...