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A series of 20 patients who developed severe post-keratoplasty glaucoma unresponsive to medical therapy and trabeculecetomy were treated using silicone drainage tubing and an anterior encircling gutter. The results indicate a four year probability of maintaining vision and normal intraocular pressure (<21 mmHg) of 0.68. In contrast, an earlier series of 13 patients receiving cycloablation with cryotherapy did significantly worse.
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Presented at the Annual Congress Ophthalmological society of the United Kingdom, April 1988.
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Kirkness, C., Ling, Y. & Rice, N. The use of silicone drainage tubing to control post-keratoplasty glaucoma. Eye 2, 583–590 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1988.109
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