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- Title
Procedimentos Minimamente Invasivos para Glaucoma: uma revisão atualizada da literatura.
- Authors
Leão de Lima, Felipe; Diniz-Filho, Alberto; Suzuki Júnior, Emílio Rintaro
- Abstract
Glaucoma is considered the biggest cause of irreversible blindness in the world and the increase in intraocular pressure is its main risk factor. Usually, the initial therapy for glaucoma consists of reducing IOP through the instillation of topical hypotensive drugs, with antiglaucoma surgeries being normally reserved for cases in which disease control is not clinically achieved. Classically, the surgical treatment of glaucoma is performed using filtering procedures: trabeculectomy; non-penetrating sclerotomy and glaucoma drainage devices. The acronym MIGS (Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery) corresponds to a group of minimally invasive surgical procedures that provide a safer and more predictable pressure reduction when compared to conventional antiglaucoma surgical techniques.
- Subjects
MINIMALLY invasive procedures; TRABECULECTOMY; FILTERING surgery; DRUG instillation; OPERATIVE surgery; INTRAOCULAR pressure; GLAUCOMA; HYPEROPIA; PENETRATING wounds
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2022, Vol 81, p1
- ISSN
0034-7280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37039/1982.8551.20220105