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Lasers in ophthalmic surgery

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Abstract

Ruby laser cyclocoagulation has been shown to be effective in the treatment of many types of glaucoma with particularly good results in neovascular glaucoma and open angle glaucoma in aphakia. Peripheral iridectomy can be performed with ruby lasers on brown irides and with argon lasers on brown and blue irides. Results with these modalities would seem to obviate the need for surgical intervention in angle closure glaucoma. Argon laser trabecular meshwork treatment shows great promise as a means of treatment in some cases of glaucoma in which medical therapy is not working or is causing adverse reaction in the patient and may substitute for surgical intervention in some cases. Treatment of long rubbing intraocular sutures and iris cysts with argon lasers has been shown to be feasible, and lysis of dense intraocular membranes has also been beneficially performed.

© 1981 Optical Society of America

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