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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
  • paper CTuN93

Experimental endoscopic goniotomy with Ho:YAG laser

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Abstract

Primary infantile glaucoma is a failure of normal maturation of tissue in the anterior chamber angle occurring in approximately 1:10,000 births. Incision, of abnormal trabecular pillars can relieve obstruction to aqueous outflow and allow the intraocular pressure to normalize in many cases. However, the cloudy cornea associated with primary infantile glaucoma may obscure visualization of the anterior chamber angle with an operating microscope and thus this procedure (goniotomy) may not be possible. We present a kind of fiber-optic laser delivery system that, combined with an endoscope, may allow a laser goniotomy to be performed despite the presence of an opaque cornea.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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