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EYE
Volume 18, Issue 12, Pages 1215-1224Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701374
Keywords
glaucoma; non-penetrating; trabeculectomy; intraocular pressure; deep sclerectomy; viscocanalostomy
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Reducing IOP is presently the evidence based, most accepted and most practised therapeutical approach for glaucoma patients. Currently topical ocular hypotensive medications, with its different classes, as well as filtering surgery (trabeculectomy and non-penetrating glaucoma surgery) are in the forefront of therapeutic modalities for IOP reduction. This article looks at the potential advantages and disadvantages of topical medications versus filtering surgery. It does not directly address the question of initial treatment of glaucoma, or what is the better treatment of glaucoma, as other review articles had, but rather looks in a more specific on the pros and the cons of each in relation to IOP reduction. In other words this article deals with the situation once the decision has been made to reduce IOP.
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