Research Article

A Comparative Study between Ultrasound Cycloplasty and Cyclocryotherapy for the Treatment of Neovascular Glaucoma

Table 1

Patients characteristics.

UCPCyclocryotherapy

Patients2623
Age, mean ± SD (range), year60.1 ± 13.2 (25–80)58.1 ± 17.4 (23–80)0.984a
Sex0.396b
 Male1113
 Female1510
Number of previous trabeculectomy0.706b
n = 02120
n = 153
n > 100
Lens status0.612b
 Phakic2322
 Pseudophakic31
 Aphakic00
IOP baseline, mean ± SD54.6 ± 9.753.3 ± 11.70.389a
Preoperative hypotensive medications, mean ± SD1.8 ± 0.81.9 ± 0.70.792a
Visual acuity, logMar0.923c
 Visual acuity42
 Count fingers11
 Hand motion23
 Light perception108
 No light perception99

aMann–Whitney test, bFisher test, cChi-square test. IOP: intraocular pressure, SD: standard deviation.