[A surgical treatment for neovascular terminal glaucoma (preliminary communication)]

In 40 patients with terminal neovascular glaucoma of various genesis (visual acuity 0 to wrong light projection), 4 rectus muscles were tightly ligated at the insertion site of their strings to the sclera of the eyeball with silk threads under local anesthesia. The threads were not postoperatively removed and left under the conjunctiva (Invention Patent No. 2286752 of November 10, 2006). The proposed procedure for blocking the anterior ciliary arteries may be used as the method of choice in patients with terminal neovascular glaucoma. It makes it possible to achieve a steady-state reduction in intraocular pressure, by improving humor outflow from the corner of the anterior chamber, to diminish or completely eliminate pain syndrome and corneal edema, by maintaining the mobility of the eye in corpore, and to avoid enucleation.