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Short-term Outcomes of Iridoplasty for Persistent Angle Closure Despite Patent Iridotomies An Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Argon Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty for Angle Closure Glaucoma and Glaucoma. Completed, enrolled 10 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Purpose: To evaluate short-term angle opening after argon peripheral iridoplasty using AS-OCT and to report its complications at 1-week and 1-month follow up in patients that did not achieve a satisfactory clinical angle opening despite patent laser peripheral iridotomy. Design: Prospective, Interventional case series Subjects: Patients with an occludable angle in more than two quadrants in dark room indentation gonioscopy and patent iridotomies of at least 2 weeks, with assessment of persistent angle closure aetiology by ultrabiomicroscopy and A-scan ultrasound are included. Patients will undergo complete examination and AS-OCT before ALPI, one week and one month after it. We analyzed the images in a masked manner and took the angle measurements (AOD500, AOD 750, TISA500, TISA750, ARA500, ARA 750, Lens vault) at 0° and 180° as the main outcome measure to determine effectiveness.
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ALPI was applied with a VISULAS diode laser of 532 nm (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA) by the same ophthalmologist (JML). Twenty to 40 spots of 400 mW power with 500 microns of size and duration of 500 ms were applied. Power was modified arbitrarily until an effective iris contraction was obtained. It was considered an effective contraction as that which causes a concentric movement around the laser spot, with minimal iris pigmentation and immediate angle opening observed through the lens mirrors using a Goldmann lens. Power was lowered if there was any bursting sound perceived, pigment dispersion, air bubbles or considerable pain.