RESUMO
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of CCT as an additional parameter to monitor childhood glaucomas after glaucoma surgery. This study included postoperative 18 eyes of 10 children [8 with bilateral glaucoma and 2 with unilateral glaucoma], All children were operated with one surgeon and with one technique which was combined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy [CTT] with mitomycin C [MMC] 0.3 mg/ml. IOP and CCT were evaluated 1-3 weeks post-operatively. Overestimation of IOP was found in 13 out of 18 eyes [72,2%] included in the study, 2 eyes with aniridia, 2 eyes with aphakia and 9 eyes with residual clouding of the cornea post-operatively. Underestimation was found in 3 out of 18 eyes [16.7%] of the study all of them had clear cornea post-operatively while no changes of IOP according to corneal thickness was found in 2 out of 18 eyes [11.1%]. From the results of this study we can conclude that central corneal thickness measurement should be considered as an additional parameter when evaluating IOP in congenital glaucoma