Results of intraoperative 5-fluorouracil in patients undergoing trabeculectomy--pilot trial.
Indian J Ophthalmol
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1996 Jun; 44(2): 91-4
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ABSTRACT
To study the effect of 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) in glaucoma filtration surgery, 13 eyes of 12 patients with glaucoma were subjected to trabeculectomy with intraoperative one minute exposure of 50 mg/ml 5-FU. The average age of patients was 36.42 +/- 18.78 years. Two of the patients had developed hypotony in the fellow eye following the use of Mitomycin C with trabeculectomy. The mean follow-up period was 9.54 +/- 5.17 weeks. Two patients developed a shallow anterior chamber with choroidals postoperatively which responded to conservative treatment. One patient developed an encysted bleb one month after surgery. Single one minute intraoperative exposure to 5-FU is a convenient and inexpensive method which appears to have no significant side effects. It may be a useful adjunctive treatment to optimise the results of glaucoma filtration surgery particularly in young and myopic patients. The long term effects, however, are not known.
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Main subject:
Ophthalmic Solutions
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Postoperative Complications
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Sclera
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Trabeculectomy
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Pilot Projects
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Glaucoma
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Ophthalmol
Year:
1996
Type:
Article
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