Wound healing in glaucoma surgery. Part 2. Risk factors

Surgical treatment of glaucoma is a common method of intraocular pressure normalizing when other treatment methods are not effective enough. However, hypotensive intervention does not guarantee a stable hypotensive effect, which is due to the processes of excessive scarring with difficulty in the outflow of intraocular fluid in the area of antiglaucoma surgery. When choosing the tactics of surgical treatment and methods of postoperative management, risk factors for the development of excessive scarring should be taken into account. Among them are the young age of patients, race, high initial intraocular pressure, long-term use of local hypotensive therapy, the presence of inflammatory pathology, previous hypotensive intervention and / or intraocular surgery, neovascular glaucoma, diabetes mellitus.