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PURPOSE: To access surgical effects in patients with secondary glaucoma in Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis. METHODS: We had employed medical or surgical treatment for 22 patients who had been diagnosed as secondary glaucoma and Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis. Thirteen patients had undergone trabeculectomy with intraoperative applications of mitomycin C (MMC), of whom 11 patients had been followed up postoperatively for 25.09 ± 14.4 months (range 6-48 months). RESULTS: Intraocular pressure (IOP) were controlled medically in 17 of 22 (77.3 %) patients. In 11 patients who had surgical therapy, mean IOP fell from a preoperative initial value of 38.05 ± 7.26 mmHg to 20.63 ± 6.15 mmHg (P = 0.000), and mean number of lowering IOP medications fell from preoperative value of 2.27 ± 0.78 to 1.09 ± 1.22 at postoperative final follow-up time (P = 0.014). The result of Kaplan-Meier analysis showed a total success of 90.9 % was achieved at 1 year, 62.3 % success at 4 years and 63.6 % complete success was achieved at 1 year and 31.8 % at 4 years. Exacerbations of intraocular inflammation with transient IOP rise at the early postoperative period occurred in six patients (23 %), and were controlled with topical corticosteroid. No frequent postoperative uveitic relapses were observed. CONCLUSION: Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis has high morbidity of secondary glaucoma. Regular follow-up and close observation should be carried out. Trabeculectomy with MMC is a moderately effective procedure for patients with secondary glaucoma.
Department of Ophthalmology, First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, People's Republic of China, yya20032003@yahoo.com.cn.
Full article9.4.6 Glaucomas associated with inflammation, uveitis (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)
2.8 Iris (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
12.8.10 Woundhealing antifibrosis (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)