[The efficacy of Cairns trabeculectomy in open-angle glaucoma].

The authors report the conclusions of their analysis of 308 operated eyes for primary open-angle glaucoma with Cairns trabeculectomy procedure. The analysed period is 1991-1995--and the patients have been operated in the Ophthalmology Clinic of the University Hospital of Bucharest. The work contains: 1) General epidemiologic characters: number of eyes, number of patients, sex, age.

[Complications specific to the types of pseudophakia].

The paper presents some complications specific to the IOL implant corelated with the 3 main groups of pseudofac: anterior chamber, irian fixation and posterior chamber pseudofac. The introducing, the fixation type and the position occupied by every IOL type determines the more frequent occurrence of some complications specific to the pseudofac implant. The therapy of these complications varies too with the implant type.