Outpatient trabeculectomy

Eighty trabeculectomies were performed for medically uncontrolled adult phakic primary open angle glaucoma during the past two years. Forty-eight of these trabeculectomies were performed as outpatients and thirty-two of these trabeculectomies were performed as inpatients. We compared the complication rates of inpatients and outpatients during the first two weeks post-op. The results of this study demonstrate that early ambulation and moderate activity did not adversely influence the rate of early postoperative complications following trabeculectomy.