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Microcatheter based minimal invasive glaucoma surgery

XIN Chen, SHI Yan, WANG Huai-zhou, WANG Ning-li   

  1. Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Beijing 100005, China
  • Received:2019-03-01 Online:2019-03-25 Published:2019-03-28
  • Contact: WANG Ning-li, Email: wningli@vip.163.com

Abstract:

The microcatheter based minimal invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedures could be classified into three types: trabecular tension surgery, trabecular bypass surgery and trabecular ablation surgery. Such procedures effectively reduce the resistance of aqueous outflow in proximal pathway. Thus, the patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) whose target intraocular pressure (IOP) is lower than the pressure of the episcleral vein is not ideal for the microcathether based MIGS procedures. Neither was the POAG subjects with high resistance in the distal aqueous pathway. The hyphema, postoperative IOP spike and ciliary body detachment are main complications for such surgical procedures. (Ophthalmol CHN,2019, 28: 85-87)

Key words:  , minimal invasive glaucoma surgery