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The literature directed at perioperative pharmacologic advances in relation to glaucoma filtration surgery is reviewed. The successful use of subconjunctival anesthesia demonstrates a new alternative in preoperative glaucoma surgical anesthesia. The intraoperative use of the antimetabolites mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil in both traditional filtration and glaucoma drainage implantation surgery has been expanded. The use of the antifibrinolytic agents urokinase and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator adds a new and controversial dimension to postoperative pharmacologic therapy.
E.K. Donohue, Discoveries in Sight, Devers Eye Institute, Legacy Health Care System, 1040 NW 22nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97210; USA
12.8.10 Woundhealing antifibrosis (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)