Treatment of bleb hypotony after phacoemulsification with autologous blood

R C McCoy1, E N Burney

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers
|October 30, 1998
PubMed

Hypotony from an inadvertent filtration bleb developed in the eye of a 66-year-old woman 1 year after phacoemulsification cataract surgery. The hypotony was treated with an autologous blood injection over the previous phacoemulsification incision. This technique successfully treated the hypotony without additional ocular surgery. The authors report an effective alternative treatment for hypotony induced by an inadvertent filtration bleb.