Trabeculectomy
Drugs and laser treatments cannot prevent all types of glaucoma with progressive optic nerve damage and visual field defects. Due to the improvement of surgical technology and the application of anti-metabolic drugs, the intraocular pressure level after trabeculectomy can be similar to the intraocular pressure level after full-thickness sclerotomy. Therefore, trabeculectomy can be applied to almost all needs Extraocular filtering glaucoma.
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