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Repair of Trabeculectomy Bleb Part 1

Graham Lee
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Repair of Trabeculectomy Bleb Part 1

Overdrainage after trabeculectomy can result in vision loss from hypotony maculopathy.  This lecture addresses the various approaches to this complication with a case requiring repair of the avascular bleb, resuturing of the scleral flap with releasable sutures, tamponading with a full thickness scleral patch graft, adjus ting the flow with 3 overlay 10/0 nylon sutures and watertight closure of the conjunctival wound.  The key is the ability to adjust the intraocular pressure post-repair for optimal control.

Graham Lee

Brisbane, Australia

Professor Graham Lee is one of a few specialists in the world who have completed both corneal & external diseases (Moorfields Eye Hospital, London) and glaucoma fellowships (Birmingham and Midlands Eye Hospital, Birmingham).

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