TY - JOUR
T1 - Late-onset bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery
AU - Greenfidd, David S.
AU - Liebmann, Jeffrey M.
AU - Jee, Jimmy
AU - Ritch, Robert
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PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Objective: To determine the incidence of focal, late-onset, conjunctival bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery. Design: Prospective, cross- sectional analysis. Setting: Tertiary care outpatient referral center. Patients: Consecutive patients who underwent glaucoma filtering surgery prior to June 1996 presenting for evaluation from September 2,1996, through November 15, 1996. Five hundred twenty-five eyes of 525 consecutive patients were enrolled in the study. Intervention: Bleb height (elevated or flat), area (diffuse or localized), and wall thickness (thin, thick, or encapsulated) were classified. Each bleb was tested for focal leakage using a moistened fluorescein strip, cobalt blue illumination, and slit-lamp biomicroscopy. Diffuse transconjunctival aqueous flow did not qualify as a focal leak. Main Outcome Measure: Seidel-positive aqueous leakage. Results: Bleb leakage occurred in 14 eyes following trabeculectomy (mitomycin C treatment, 10 eyes; 5-fluorouracil treatment, 3 eyes; no antifibrosis agent, 1 eye) and in 1 eye following combined cataract and glaucoma surgery with adjunctive mitomycin C therapy. Bleb leakage occurred more frequently in eyes that received mitomycin C (10 [3.7%] of 273 eyes) than 5-fluorouracil (3 [1.4%] of 213 eyes) or no antifibrosis agent (1 [2.6%] of 39 eyes), using Kaplan-Meier estimates (P=.008, log-rank test). Conjunctival blebs were significantly thinner after trabeculectomy with mitomycin C than with 5- fluorouracil (P=.001). Bleb wall thickness was greater following combined cataract and glaucoma surgery than following trabeculectomy alone (P=.008). Age (P=.84), sex (P=.68), race (P=.77), duration of mitomycin C exposure (P=.62), number of antiglaucoma medications (P=.16), and total 5-fluorouracil dose (P=.85) were not associated with late-onset leaks. Conclusions: The risk of late-onset focal bleb leakage increases following trabeculectomy with mitomycin C therapy. Late leakage after combined cataract and glaucoma surgery is infrequent.
AB - Objective: To determine the incidence of focal, late-onset, conjunctival bleb leaks after glaucoma filtering surgery. Design: Prospective, cross- sectional analysis. Setting: Tertiary care outpatient referral center. Patients: Consecutive patients who underwent glaucoma filtering surgery prior to June 1996 presenting for evaluation from September 2,1996, through November 15, 1996. Five hundred twenty-five eyes of 525 consecutive patients were enrolled in the study. Intervention: Bleb height (elevated or flat), area (diffuse or localized), and wall thickness (thin, thick, or encapsulated) were classified. Each bleb was tested for focal leakage using a moistened fluorescein strip, cobalt blue illumination, and slit-lamp biomicroscopy. Diffuse transconjunctival aqueous flow did not qualify as a focal leak. Main Outcome Measure: Seidel-positive aqueous leakage. Results: Bleb leakage occurred in 14 eyes following trabeculectomy (mitomycin C treatment, 10 eyes; 5-fluorouracil treatment, 3 eyes; no antifibrosis agent, 1 eye) and in 1 eye following combined cataract and glaucoma surgery with adjunctive mitomycin C therapy. Bleb leakage occurred more frequently in eyes that received mitomycin C (10 [3.7%] of 273 eyes) than 5-fluorouracil (3 [1.4%] of 213 eyes) or no antifibrosis agent (1 [2.6%] of 39 eyes), using Kaplan-Meier estimates (P=.008, log-rank test). Conjunctival blebs were significantly thinner after trabeculectomy with mitomycin C than with 5- fluorouracil (P=.001). Bleb wall thickness was greater following combined cataract and glaucoma surgery than following trabeculectomy alone (P=.008). Age (P=.84), sex (P=.68), race (P=.77), duration of mitomycin C exposure (P=.62), number of antiglaucoma medications (P=.16), and total 5-fluorouracil dose (P=.85) were not associated with late-onset leaks. Conclusions: The risk of late-onset focal bleb leakage increases following trabeculectomy with mitomycin C therapy. Late leakage after combined cataract and glaucoma surgery is infrequent.
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U2 - 10.1001/archopht.116.4.443
DO - 10.1001/archopht.116.4.443
M3 - Article
C2 - 9565040
AN - SCOPUS:0031916590
VL - 116
SP - 443
EP - 447
JO - JAMA Ophthalmology
JF - JAMA Ophthalmology
SN - 2168-6165
IS - 4
ER -