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EmyK ([personal profile] moredarker) wrote2005-04-09 03:32 am

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During trabeculectomy—sometimes also called filtration surgery—a piece of tissue in the drainage angle of the eye is removed, creating an opening. The opening is partially covered with a flap of tissue from the sclera, the white part of the eye, and the conjunctiva, the clear thin covering over the sclera. This new opening allows fluid (aqueous humor) to drain out of the eye, bypassing the clogged drainage channels of the trabecular meshwork.

As the fluid flows through the new drainage opening, the tissue over the opening rises to form a little blister or bubble, called a bleb. The bleb is located where the sclera, or white of the eye, joins the iris, the colored part of the eye. During office visits after surgery, the doctor looks at the bleb to make sure that fluid is still draining out of the new opening. Not all blebs have to be easily seen to work.


this is where i go it from

[identity profile] ontheqt.livejournal.com 2005-04-09 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)

so how does your eye heal?

[identity profile] moredarker.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
well it's not on the surface of the eye. it's under the lid or soemthing and i got stitches so... really i have no clue.

[identity profile] ontheqt.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)

but you can see more clearer now?

[identity profile] sholanda.livejournal.com 2005-04-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
OW OW OW OMG OW

[identity profile] moredarker.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
at least i was knocked out for it! it's only a little bit sore now. nothing bad.

[identity profile] azaspeaks.livejournal.com 2005-04-09 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"aqueous humor"! i'm laughing already!

[identity profile] moredarker.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, i wonder why they call it that.