Inflammation Patterns After Laser Trabeculoplasty Measured With the Laser Flare Meter

Quantitative assessment of aqueous flare and aqueous ‘cells’ in pseudoexfoliation syndrome

“…Our results are in concordance with recent fmdings of Mermoud et al (1991) who, with the LFCM, observed an increase in aqueous flare following argon laser trabeculoplasty in eyes with PSX syndrome in comparison with OAG eyes without PSX.…”

Quantitative assessment of aqueous flare and aqueous ‘cells’ in pseudoexfoliation syndrome

“…Our results are in concordance with recent fmdings of Mermoud et al (1991) who, with the LFCM, observed an increase in aqueous flare following argon laser trabeculoplasty in eyes with PSX syndrome in comparison with OAG eyes without PSX.…”

Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty: hypotensive efficacy, anterior chamber inflammation, and postoperative pain

“…It could be that instead, this method quantifies the detritus and Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty JM Martinez-de-la-Casa et al 500 pigment released in response to treatment and is not related to the inflammatory response. During the rest of the follow-up period, the differences between the two groups were not significant though the degree of inflammation in the SLT group never exceeded that of the argon laser-treated patients, contrasting with observations by Damji et al 18 Mermoud et al, 19 after treating 71 eyes with ALT, found a greater inflammatory peak 48 h after treatment, which was accompanied by a greater pressure decrease at this stage of follow-up. His explanation for these events was based on the capacity of the trabecular meshwork to synthesize prostaglandins, which could act as mediators of the inflammation and, at the same time, would have a beneficial effect on IOP.…”

Post-operative inflammation following deep sclerectomy with collagen implant versus standard trabeculectomy

“…Greater sensitivity and accuracy is achieved using the laser flare photometer. The reproducibility of this instrument in detecting subclinical flare change has been demonstrated in previous experimental and clinical studies [4,6,9,11], suggesting that photon counts provided by laser flare photometry are an excellent indicator of blood-aqueous barrier breakdown. Anterior chamber cellularity has been found to correlate less well with the severity of intraocular inflammation [7] and therefore was not used as a parameter to assess the inflammatory reaction in this study.…”

Quantitative assessment of aqueous flare and aqueous ‘cells’ in pseudoexfoliation syndrome

“…Our results are in concordance with recent fmdings of Mermoud et al (1991) who, with the LFCM, observed an increase in aqueous flare following argon laser trabeculoplasty in eyes with PSX syndrome in comparison with OAG eyes without PSX.…”

Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty: hypotensive efficacy, anterior chamber inflammation, and postoperative pain

“…It could be that instead, this method quantifies the detritus and Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty JM Martinez-de-la-Casa et al 500 pigment released in response to treatment and is not related to the inflammatory response. During the rest of the follow-up period, the differences between the two groups were not significant though the degree of inflammation in the SLT group never exceeded that of the argon laser-treated patients, contrasting with observations by Damji et al 18 Mermoud et al, 19 after treating 71 eyes with ALT, found a greater inflammatory peak 48 h after treatment, which was accompanied by a greater pressure decrease at this stage of follow-up. His explanation for these events was based on the capacity of the trabecular meshwork to synthesize prostaglandins, which could act as mediators of the inflammation and, at the same time, would have a beneficial effect on IOP.…”

Post-operative inflammation following deep sclerectomy with collagen implant versus standard trabeculectomy

“…Greater sensitivity and accuracy is achieved using the laser flare photometer. The reproducibility of this instrument in detecting subclinical flare change has been demonstrated in previous experimental and clinical studies [4,6,9,11], suggesting that photon counts provided by laser flare photometry are an excellent indicator of blood-aqueous barrier breakdown. Anterior chamber cellularity has been found to correlate less well with the severity of intraocular inflammation [7] and therefore was not used as a parameter to assess the inflammatory reaction in this study.…”

Quantitative assessment of aqueous flare and aqueous ‘cells’ in pseudoexfoliation syndrome

“…Our results are in concordance with recent fmdings of Mermoud et al (1991) who, with the LFCM, observed an increase in aqueous flare following argon laser trabeculoplasty in eyes with PSX syndrome in comparison with OAG eyes without PSX.…”

Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty: hypotensive efficacy, anterior chamber inflammation, and postoperative pain

“…It could be that instead, this method quantifies the detritus and Selective vs argon laser trabeculoplasty JM Martinez-de-la-Casa et al 500 pigment released in response to treatment and is not related to the inflammatory response. During the rest of the follow-up period, the differences between the two groups were not significant though the degree of inflammation in the SLT group never exceeded that of the argon laser-treated patients, contrasting with observations by Damji et al 18 Mermoud et al, 19 after treating 71 eyes with ALT, found a greater inflammatory peak 48 h after treatment, which was accompanied by a greater pressure decrease at this stage of follow-up. His explanation for these events was based on the capacity of the trabecular meshwork to synthesize prostaglandins, which could act as mediators of the inflammation and, at the same time, would have a beneficial effect on IOP.…”

Post-operative inflammation following deep sclerectomy with collagen implant versus standard trabeculectomy

“…Greater sensitivity and accuracy is achieved using the laser flare photometer. The reproducibility of this instrument in detecting subclinical flare change has been demonstrated in previous experimental and clinical studies [4,6,9,11], suggesting that photon counts provided by laser flare photometry are an excellent indicator of blood-aqueous barrier breakdown. Anterior chamber cellularity has been found to correlate less well with the severity of intraocular inflammation [7] and therefore was not used as a parameter to assess the inflammatory reaction in this study.…”