Long-term treatment success and safety of combined phacoemulsification plus excimer laser trabeculostomy: an 8-year follow-up study

• Published in: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology Vol. 260; no. 5; pp. 1611 - 1621
• Main Authors: Riesen, Maik, Funk, Jens, Töteberg-Harms, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acuity; Cataract - complications; Cataracts; Complications; Diagnosis; Eye; Follow-Up Studies; Glaucoma; Humans; Intraocular Pressure; Lasers, Excimer - therapeutic use; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Ophthalmology; Patients; Phacoemulsification - methods; Postoperative; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Postoperative Complications - surgery; Success; Surgery; Trabeculectomy - methods; Treatment Outcome; Glaucoma; Excimer laser trabeculotomy; Excimer laser trabeculostomy; Phacoemulsification; ELT; MIGS

Purpose Combined phacoemulsification plus excimer laser trabeculostomy (phaco-ELT) is a minimally invasive surgery that effectively reduces intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma and a concomitant diagnosis of cataract. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term treatment succ...