[Trabeculectomy preceded by retinal panphotocoagulation in the treatment of secondary glaucoma with rubeosis iridis]

Fifteen patients with bilateral secondary glaucoma caused by rubeosis iridis in the course of diabetes were operated; one eye was subjected to a simple trabeculectomy, the fellow-eye to filtrating trabeculectomy by Nesterow's method; antiglaucomatous operations were preceded by a panretinal photocoagulation. After at least 3 years of observation the more stable reduction of the IOP was shown after filtering trabeculectomy.