[Treatment of ectasic filtering blebs with argon laser photocoagulation]

One of the complications of glaucoma filtering procedures is the development of an excessively large functioning filtering bleb. Five such cases were treated by Argon laser photocoagulation of the bleb surface, this having been previously colored by use of sterile Rose Bengal eye drops (not by methylene blue used by Fink and coll. (2) in certain cases). Results in these five cases were spectacular: immediately, there was considerable decrease in bleb size, good persisting filtration and the disappearance of symptoms; in the ???? ???, there was persistence of good results and ???? ?? complications. For all these reasons: ease at procedure, ambulatory treatment, good results, absence of complications, one ??????? prefer argon laser photocoagulation of the bleb surface to either cryotherapy or surgery.