Glaucoma filtration surgery combined Chinese and Western medicine

Abstract:

Glaucoma is one of the three major causes of human blindness. The treatment of glaucoma focuses on the intraocular pressure(IOP)reduction. As for glaucoma patients with IOP uncontrolled on medications, surgery is the main treatment. Glaucoma operation has various ways, and the filtration surgery occupies an important position in clinic, while after a number of improvements, the simple surgery failure rate is still very high. This article focused on how to improve the anti-glaucoma filtration surgery success rate, reviewed the literature in the past decade, summed up the Chinese and Western medicine for the understanding of the causes of failed surgery, introduced that glaucoma filtration surgery can be combined with the use of Chinese and Western medicine. We concluded that Chinese and Western medicine joint use can improve the success rate of surgery.