in eye surgery when mitomycin C 0.02% is typically given to avoid scarring during glaucoma filtering surgery and to avoid haze following PRK or LASIK. Mitomycin C has also been demonstrated to reduce after strabismus surgery. The third use involves esophageal and tracheal stenosis. Applying ...
Imtiyaz A, Reyaz AU, Sheikh SA. Complications following Use of Intraoperative Mitomycin-C in Pterygium Surgery. I JK SCIENCE 2004; 6(1). Disponible en: www.jkscience.org/ archive/volume6/complic.pdf [Fecha de consulta: 30 de mayo de 2009]....
To report the efficacy and safety of intraoperative application of mitomycin C in surgery for pterygium. Methods: In a prospective randomized and double-blind study done within a span of 2.5 years in 50 eyes (50 patients) with primary progressive pterygium, mitomycin C in a concentration of 0.02...
Methods: This is a cross sectional study which included 145 eyes of 74 patients in 18 to 51 years age group that were undergoing Photorefractive keratectomy with mitomycin C using Allegretto Wave Eye-Q 400-Hz excimer laser platform in Markazi Eye Center, Tehran, Iran. The results of photorefrac...
Methods: The authors report on a series of 10 patients who experienced serious, vision-threatening complications associated with the use of this drug after pterygium surgery. Results: Complications included severe secondary glaucoma (4 patients), corneal edema (3 patients), corneal perforation (1 pati...
Trabeculectomy (TE) with mitomycin C (MMC) is considered the gold standard in glaucoma surgery. A new modification is the use of an Ologen® implant (AEON Astron Europe B.V., Leiden, Netherlands) during TE, which was analyzed and compared to the standard TE in this retrospective study. ...
Acute Pericarditis Occurring Three Days after Intravesical Instillation of Mitomycin C after Transurethral Bladder Tumor Resection in a 64-Year-Old Woman Randomized trial of pterygium surgery with mitomycin C application using conjunctival autograft versus conjunctival-limbal autograft. Analysis of efficacy, ...
Conclusions The success rate of trabeculectomy in glaucoma following congenital cataract surgery was 36.8% at the end of 3 years. The present study proves a poor success rate of trabeculectomy in a small series of aphakic Asian Indian patients even with the use of MMC. Similar content being vie...
MATERIALS AND METHODS All procedures on animals performed in this study were in accordance with NIH publication no. 86-23, revised 1985, and the current version of the Swiss Resolutions on the Use of Animals in Research. The study was also approved by the cantonal veterinar ian. Ten ...
There were three conjunctival holes, which had a positive Seidel test, near the superior fornix three weeks after surgery. Because of hypotony and choroidal effusion in the operated eye, the patient was hospitalized and medical treatment carried out. Despite medical treatment, the leak continued for...