Resumen

ALVAREZ CISNEROS, Germán Antonio et al. Trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy as initial surgical treatment for primary congenital glaucoma. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.4  Epub 08-Feb-2021. ISSN 1561-3070.

Primary congenital glaucoma is the most common form of childhood glaucoma. This condition requires early diagnosis and relatively urgent surgical treatment, since it may leave serious morphological and functional sequelae. A description is provided of the first combined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy performed in the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. The operation was performed on a male one-year-old Arab patient diagnosed with primary congenital glaucoma II. Post-operative follow-up found satisfactory results, and trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy was thus considered to be an effective, sufficiently safe surgical procedure, which should be performed by qualified personnel to be accepted as the first surgical treatment option for primary congenital glaucoma.

Palabras clave : Trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy; primary congenital glaucoma; goniotomy.

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