A review of combined phacoemulsification and endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation: efficacy and safety.

Int J Ophthalmol

Department of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China.

Published: August 2018

As cataract occurs frequently in patients with glaucoma, combining phacoemulsification and endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation has been gaining attention recently due to its minimally invasive nature. A variety of studies had evaluated the efficacy and safety of this procedure and had shown extremely promising results. This review article has shown here that combined phacoemulsification and endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation procedure could effectively reduce intraocular pressure in medically uncontrolled glaucoma patients while avoiding serious complications associated with traditional cyclophotocoagulation procedure and adverse effects related to filtering surgery such as trabeculectomy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090118PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.18240/ijo.2018.08.23DOI Listing

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