Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency After Glaucoma Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To characterize the clinical presentation of limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) associated with glaucoma surgeries.

Methods

This is a retrospective cross-sectional study of patients with LSCD and glaucoma who presented to the Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 2009 and 2018. Patients who underwent trabeculectomy and/or aqueous shunt surgery were included. The severity of LSCD was staged using global consensus guidelines and a clinical scoring system, and basal epithelial cell density was measured by in vivo confocal microscopy. Anatomic locations of glaucoma and non-glaucoma surgeries, locations of LSCD, and severity of LSCD were compared.

Results

Fifty-one eyes of 41 patients with LSCD associated with glaucoma surgery we

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8018231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature