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PURPOSE: To report the incidence and outcomes of suprachoroidal hemorrhage (SCH) associated with pediatric glaucoma surgery. METHOD: The medical records of pediatric patients (<18 years of age) who had undergone glaucoma surgery and developed SCH from June 2014 to September 2017 were reviewed retrospectively. In all cases, the SCH was suspected clinically and was confirmed by B-scan ultrasound. Baseline characteristics, intraoperative details (including surgery type), and subsequent and final outcomes were extracted from the records. RESULTS: Of 2,656 glaucoma surgeries during the study period, 17 cases of SCH were documented, for an overall incidence of 0.64%. Of the 17 cases, 16 occurred postoperatively, and 1 was noted intraoperatively. By surgery type, the incidence of SCH was highest for trabeculectomy (4/121), followed by glaucoma drainage device surgery (6/463), deep sclerectomy (6/851), and transcleral cyclophotocoagulation (1/542). Four children had received prior transcleral cyclophotocoagulation, and 5 of the children were aphakic at the time of the glaucoma surgery. At a mean final follow-up of 1.71 ± 1.08 years), visual acuity in the affected eye was 20/50 or better in 3 children, between 20/50 and 20/200 in 5 children, and counting fingers or worse in 9 children. CONCLUSIONS: In our study cohort, the overall incidence of SCH associated with glaucoma surgery was 0.64%. Further study of risk factors for SCH associated with glaucoma surgery in children is needed.
Glaucoma Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Full article9.1.2 Juvenile glaucoma (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.1 Developmental glaucomas)
9.4.10 Glaucomas associated with hemorrhage (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)
12.8.11 Complications, endophthalmitis (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)
2.12 Choroid, peripapillary choroid, peripapillary atrophy (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)