Glaucoma surgery in Caribbean Negroes on Curacao.
Fifty-four eyes of Negro patients of the Caribbean island of Curacao were operated upon for medically uncontrolled open-angle glaucoma. Two different types of surgical techniques were used: procedures with cautery under a scleral flap and trabeculectomy with cautery. A third group, a combined intracapsular lens extraction and trabeculectomy was also included. Trabeculectomy with cautery gave the most successful results: in about half of the eyes without medication and an additional third of the eyes with medication. Failures occurred in about 15%.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D002425:Cautery; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009427:Netherlands Antilles; D012590:Sclera / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014129:Trabecular Meshwork / Q000601:surgery