Chronic hypotony is not uncommon following deep sclerectomy, but only a small proportion of patients with prolonged hypotony will develop complications that may threaten vision, according to a retrospective study.
“Hypotony complications might occur even in the absence of numerical hypotony in predisposed eyes. This means that numerical hypotony is neither necessary nor sufficient to develop complications,” Alessandro Rabiolo, MD, FEBO, said at the virtual American Glaucoma Society annual meeting.
Rabiolo and colleagues evaluated 1,765 eyes of 1,385 patients who underwent deep
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