Refusal of Trabeculectomy for the Fellow Eye in Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS) Participants.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To understand the reasons for refusal of fellow eye surgical treatment for glaucoma after first eye trabeculectomy.

Design

Post hoc analysis of data collected in a multicenter, randomized clinical trial.

Methods

Data from participants in the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS) who were randomized to and underwent initial trabeculectomy on their study eye, and whose fellow eye was eligible for surgical treatment, were analyzed. Participant demographic data and characteristics, surgical data from the study eye, and quality-of-life survey results were compared between groups that received or refused trabeculectomy in their fellow eye. The main outcome measure was patient refusal of fellow eye surgery for glaucoma.

Results

Of 159 particip

SUBMITTER: Gupta D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955405 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature