Influence on intraocular pressure of anti-inflammatory treatments after selective laser trabeculoplasty.

Introduction: Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is an effective and safe procedure to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) in the management of open-angle glaucoma. The post-laser inflammatory reaction could be positively implicated in SLT efficacy and the relevance of postoperative use of topical anti-inflammatory remains controversial. The goal of this study is to determine the effect of various anti-inflammatory treatments on intraocular pressure and on side effects following SLT.

Risk Factors for a Severe Bleb Leak Following Trabeculectomy: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.

Purpose: To describe the population at risk of having a severe bleb leak needing a surgical repair in the operating room and to study risk factors associated with severe bleb leak.

Patients And Methods: In this case-control study, 17 cases were enrolled and paired with 51 controls. We studied all patients having a surgical revision in our center for a severe bleb leak between January 1 and December 31, 2008.

Transconjunctival suturing of the scleral flap for overfiltration with hypotony maculopathy after trabeculectomy.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of transconjunctival suturing of the scleral flap in improving hypotony maculopathy resulting from overfiltration after trabeculectomy.

Design: Retrospective review.

Participants: 35 eyes of 33 patients.

Founder TIGR/myocilin mutations for glaucoma in the Québec population.

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a complex disorder characterized by a progressive and treatable degeneration of the optic nerve. TIGR/myocilin (MYOC) gene mutations are found in approximately 4% of all POAG patients. Populations with frequent founder effects, such as the French-Canadians, offer unique advantages to implement genetic testing for the disorder.

Experimental determination of dosimetry functions of Ir-192 sources.

Experimental data related to the dosimetric characteristics of Ir-192 brachytherapy sources are limited. The aim of this work was to obtain the dosimetry functions required by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 43 for both a low and a high dose-rate iridium-192 brachytherapy source through dose measurements in a water-equivalent phantom. Dose measurements have been performed using lithium fluoride thermoluminescent detectors positioned in a polystyrene phantom at distances from the source that vary from 1 to 10 cm, with 1 cm intervals, and at angles that vary from 0 degree to 170 degrees with 10 degrees intervals.