Glaucoma and keratoprosthesis surgery: role of adjunctive cyclophotocoagulation.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (DLTSC) to control intraocular pressure (IOP) in keratoprosthesis patients with uncontrolled glaucoma.

Patients And Methods: Between 1993 and 2007, 18 eyes of 18 patients underwent DLTSC, either before (n=3), during (n=1), or after (n=14) keratoprosthesis surgery. Keratoprosthesis type I was used in 72%.

Ten years follow-up after deep sclerectomy with collagen implant.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term success rate and complications of nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy with collagen implant in open-angle glaucoma.

Patients And Methods: Clinical, prospective, monocentric, nonrandomized, unmasked study on 105 patients with medically uncontrolled glaucoma. A standard procedure deep sclerectomy with collagen implant was performed.

Ex-PRESS R-50 miniature glaucoma implant insertion under the conjunctiva combined with cataract extraction.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the Ex-PRESS R-50 implant (Optonol Ltd.) in eyes operated on for open-angle glaucoma combined with phacoemulsification.

Setting: Glaucoma Unit, Ophthalmology Department, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.