Clinical Results

Treating Glaucoma with Trabectome has had good Clinical Results


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Safer and Simpler
Trabectome has been successfully used in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers across the United States with more than 1600 patient data points since 2002. Trabectome continues to show remarkable operative and post-operative safety profiles and has not resulted in any of the following post operative conditions:

  • Flat or shallow anterior chamber
  • Persisting corneal edema
  • Problematic pain
  • Sustained hypotony
  • Infection
  • Wound leak
  • Bleb formation
  • Choroidal effusion
  • Choroidal hemorrhage
  • Visual acuity decrease (>2 lines)


months after surgery
Graph 1:Graphic display of mean IOPs ± SD at various intervals of follow-up out to 60 months after Trabectome.



months after surgery
Graph 2:Graphic display of decrease in mean number of topical medications utilized at various times after Trabectome out to 60 months.