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  • Acute ultrastructural changes of the trabecular meshwork after selective lasertrabeculoplasty and low power argon laser trabeculoplasty
    Cvenkel, Barbara ...
    Background and objectives: To compare the histopathological changes in the human trabecular meshwork after low power argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT) and selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) with a ... Q-switched, frequency-doubled, neodymium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser. Study design/materials and methods: In gonioscopically normal trabecular meshwork ofthree patients awaiting enucleation due to malignant melanoma of the choroid, SLT and ALT were performed 1-5 days prior to enucleation. In each eye, the lower half of trabecular meshwork received SLT, one quadrant low power (460 mW) ALT and one quadrant was left untreated. Specimens were evaluated with light and transmission electron microscopy. Results: A sharp demarcation line was visible between the laser treated and untreated intact trabecular meshwork after ALT and SLT. Both lasers caused disruption of trabecular beams, but the extent of the damage was smaller after SLT. The collagen component of trabecular beams was mostly amorphous, the long-spacing collagen was scanty after ALT, but more abundant after SLT. In the intertrabecular spaces fragmented cells and tissue debris with only a few pigmented cells were observed. Some endothelial cells were desquamated, but appeared slightly better preserved after SLT than ALT. Conclusion: Our ultrastructural comparison of the morphological changes after low power ALT and SLT in patients demonstrated that both lasers caused splitting and fragmentation of the trabecular beams of the trabecular meshwork, but the extent of the damage was smaller and the preservation of long-spacing collagenbetter after SLT than after ALT.
    Source: Lasers in surgery and medicine. - ISSN 0196-8092 (Letn. 33, št. 3, 2003, str. 204-208)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2003
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17222873

source: Lasers in surgery and medicine. - ISSN 0196-8092 (Letn. 33, št. 3, 2003, str. 204-208)
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