title: Efficacy and safety of a new surgical method to treat malignant glaucoma in pseudophakia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the efficacy and safety of a relatively new surgical method in pseudophakic malignant glaucoma patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study is a retrospective, non-comparative, interventional case series. Ten eyes of nine pseudophakic malignant glaucoma patients with mean age of 63.3 years were analysed. All 10 eyes underwent a novel surgical technique, an anterior chamber capsulo-hyaloidectomy and anterior vitrectomy through the peripheral iridectomy. Main outcome measures were: reformation of the anterior chamber, intraocular pressure (IOP), best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and complications.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All 10 eyes with pseudophakic malignant glaucoma were treated successfully by using a new surgical technique. All cases had a relief of aqueous misdirection with anterior chamber deepening during and after the surgery and post-operative intraocular pressure (IOP) normalization. No relapses have been observed so far. There were no complications during surgery and in the post-operative period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The presented surgical technique seems to be safe and effective in all cases of malignant glaucoma in pseudophakia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Żarnowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wilkos-Kuc
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tulidowicz-Bielak
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kalinowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zadrożniak
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pyszniak
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rękas
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D018463:Filtering Surgery / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D032801:Iridectomy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019591:Pseudophakia / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D014821:Vitrectomy