Trabeculectomy Versus Canaloplasty to Treat Glaucoma

Inclusion Criteria

• •patients with open angle glaucoma and excavation of 0.4 - 0.8
• •60 eyes of 60 patients (30 patients for trabeculectomy, 30 patients for Canaloplasty) The ratio of female / male is not involved.
• •Eye pressure under local therapy: 20mmHg and above (corrected with pachymetry table).
• •Local drug therapy: at least 2 eye pressure lowering ingredients or absolute intolerance to preservatives or eye drops.
• •general anesthesia possible.
• •The operation must be signed by the surgeon as a state-of-the-art performed without complication to be evaluated. If the operation does not meet this criterion, the patient is excluded from the study.
• •Phenprocoumon therapy.
• •operation is not done state-of-the-art.
• •after the surgery: additional eye pressure lowering surgery, cataract surgery, keratoplasty, laser surgery in the anterior eye segment (except suture lysis after trabeculectomy)
• •Uveitis, or possible inflammation of the eye
• •Previous eye pressure lowering operations or laser interventions
• •Corneal Refractive Surgery (pseudophakia allowed)