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Health Encyclopedia: Glaucoma Surgery

Surgery

If medications do not control eye pressure, or if they create intolerable side effects, surgery may be necessary in a small percentage of people with chronic glaucoma. It may be particularly helpful for patients with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma.

The standard procedures are usually one of the following:

Filtration surgery (trabeculectomy). This procedure opens the full thickness of the drainage area.
Laser trabeculoplasty. This procedure partially opens the drainage area. It does not reduce pr...

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