[The efficacy of Cairns trabeculectomy in open-angle glaucoma]

The authors report the conclusions of their analysis of 308 operated eyes for primary open-angle glaucoma with Cairns trabeculectomy procedure. The analysed period is 1991-1995--and the patients have been operated in the Ophthalmology Clinic of the University Hospital of Bucharest. The work contains: 1) General epidemiologic characters: number of eyes, number of patients, sex, age. 2) The analysis of the surgical intervention's efficiency by the following parametres (TIO, visual acuity, field loss, fundus oculi changes) after 6 months, 12 months, 24 months ... to 5 years. 3) The repartition of the cases clinical forms of glaucoma: primary glaucoma, pigmentary glaucoma, myopic glaucoma > 6D, exfoliative glaucoma, glaucoma with normal pressure. 4) The efficiency of the trabeculectomy depending on the moment of the surgical intervention: first stadium, second stadium, advanced stadium. 5) The analysis of the risk factors: familial antecedents of glaucoma, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, thrombosis of the central retinal vein, myopia > 6D. 6) The cataractogen effect of the trabeculectomy.