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We started a prospective study to assess the effectiveness and safety of the operation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Up to March 1998 we enrolled 33 patients (33 eyes) suffering from glaucoma, uncontrolled despite maximum medical therapy, who underwent viscocanalostomy according to Stegmann's technique. A complete ophthalmological examination was performed the day before surgery and on days 1 and 7 postoperatively. Further visits were scheduled at months 1, 3, 6 and 12.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In four eyes Schlemm's canal was either missed or not deroofed properly, and the procedure was converted into simple trabeculectomy. After a mean follow-up of 3.0\u00b12.6 months (range 1\u201310), success defined as IOP &gt; 2 and &lt; 21 mmHg with no medication was obtained in 86.2% of the cases (25\/29); 23 out of 29 eyes (79.3%) had IOP &gt; 2 and &lt; 16 mmHg. In the 25 successful eyes, mean IOP was 27.7\u00b19.5 mmHg (range 13\u201348) preoperatively and 12.0\u00b13.0 mmHg (range 7\u201318) (p&lt;0.0001) at the end of the follow-up period. Mean VA ranged from 0.35\u00b10.34 to 0.32\u00b10.32 (n.s.).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Intraoperative complications included<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Descemet rupture (7), with iris plugging in two cases; choroidal deroofing (3), irregular incision of Schlemm's canal (2). Postoperative complications included: self-resolving 2-mm hyphema (4); IOP spike (1); inadvertent filtering bleb (2); hypotony with choroidal detachment for one week (1).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this short-term study, viscocanalostomy proved effective and safe in lowering IOP in glaucomatous eyes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/112067219800800201","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,13]],"date-time":"2018-03-13T05:16:40Z","timestamp":1520918200000},"page":"57-61","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["Viscocanalostomy: A Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"R.G.","family":"Carassa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, University of Milano, Milano - Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"Bettin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, University of Milano, Milano - Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Fiori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, University of Milano, Milano - Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Brancato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, University of Milano, Milano - Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1998,4,1]]},"container-title":["European Journal of Ophthalmology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/112067219800800201","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/112067219800800201","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,28]],"date-time":"2026-04-28T19:42:49Z","timestamp":1777405369000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/112067219800800201"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,4]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,4]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1177\/112067219800800201"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/112067219800800201","relation":{},"ISSN":["1120-6721","1724-6016"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1120-6721","type":"print"},{"value":"1724-6016","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,4]]}}}