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Jeffrey Freedman, MD, PhD; Benjamin Rubin, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1991;109(10):1417-1420.

Abstract
• Eighty-two black patients with refractory glaucoma were treated with a single-plate Molteno implant inserted in a single-stage procedure. A successful outcome (intraocular pressure 21 mm Hg with or without adjunctive medical therapy) was achieved in 72% of the patients with a mean follow-up of 30 months. Success was achieved in 23 (73%) of the 31 patients with open angle glaucoma, 20 (83%) of the 24 patients with either aphakic or pseudophakic glaucoma, 12 (67%) of the 18 patients with neovascular glaucoma, four (80%) of the five patients with uveitic glaucoma, and two (50%) of the four patients with congenital glaucoma. All but four patients required additional medical therapy. Visual acuities remained the same or improved in 21 (68%) of the 31 patients with open angle glaucoma, 11 (61%) of the 18 with neovascular glaucoma, 19 (79%) of the 24 patients with aphakic/pseudophakic glaucoma, three (75%) of the four patients with congenital glaucoma, and four (80%) of the five patients with uveitic glaucoma. Complications included hyphema (18%), "kissing" choroidal effusion (6%), blocked tube (8%), flat anterior chamber (12%), cataracts (5%), Tenon's cyst (encapsulated bleb) (17%), uveitis (7%), phthisis bulbi (5%), and erosion of the silicone tube (1%).

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Ophthalmology, The State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York (Dr Freedman), and the National Institutes of Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Md (Dr Rubin).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 16, 1991.

Reprint requests to Long Island College Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, 340 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Dr Freedman).

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