Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
trabeculectomy
Subclass of:
Filtering Surgery
Definitions related to trabeculectomy:
  • Any surgical procedure for treatment of glaucoma by means of puncture or reshaping of the trabecular meshwork. It includes goniotomy, trabeculectomy, and laser perforation.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (trabeculoplasty) A laser procedure that burns small holes on the eye's trabecular meshwork to ease the flow of aqueous humor from the eye.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Before the development of the trabeculectomy, the available surgical methods of intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction had a high rate of serious complications such as hypotony, flat anterior chamber and endophthalmitis. Thus, in an effort to improve the safety of IOP-lowering surgery, the guarded filtering procedure was developed.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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